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Tony Barnstone has no walls. He is alive moment to moment at the naked center. In his shrewd double vision, the animal self and the outside self mingle in ecstasy and grief of flesh. He is so surprising and fearless and cuts right to it, and yet so delicate and lyrical.
--Ruth Stone "Plain-spoken and magical, this poet knows how to make imagination and the real world collide softly. Borders are crossed in the psyche and the flesh, and this collection seems like an elongated song that embraces the most elusive moments buried in language and nuance through the pure naming of things--a mantra of what is and what is dreamt--that takes into the sacred territory what no ordinary compass can plot or unplot."
--Yusef Komunyakaa
--Ruth Stone "Plain-spoken and magical, this poet knows how to make imagination and the real world collide softly. Borders are crossed in the psyche and the flesh, and this collection seems like an elongated song that embraces the most elusive moments buried in language and nuance through the pure naming of things--a mantra of what is and what is dreamt--that takes into the sacred territory what no ordinary compass can plot or unplot."
--Yusef Komunyakaa
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About the Author:
Tony Barnstone is a professor of English at Whittier College and the author of thirteen books, including Sad Jazz: Sonnets.
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The beast in the apartment is but "a paper lion" and the kisses one delivers in a poem, like the Marvellian sonnet that makes up one unnamed part of "Rota Fortuna" are paper as well. But for all that, they are well made and worth savoring. This collection offers the riches of a mature poet's reflections on life and death, which cannot help but enrich our own lives as well. --Robbi Nestor, New York Journal of Books - See more at: nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/beast-apartment-tony-barnstone#sthash.PN06CybQ.dpuf
Tony Barnstone's collection rests on gentle morbidity and time-keeping sorrows yet exudes energy and contingency.
The reader is frequently reminded that, even in the darkest ways, we are connected with humans and nature, as if we are alljoined as one as the "planet [is] breathing" ("The Empty Apartment").
--Alexis Gobel, TAB, The Journal of Poetry and Poetics (journals.chapman.edu/ojs/index.php/TAB-Journal/article/viewFile/985/1128)
Barnstone's previous books include, The Golem Of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008), which exudes a joyful playfulness in its modern psalms, parables, testaments, sermons, sutras and gospels, and Tongue of War: from Pearl Harbor to Nagaski (BkMk Press, 2009), which offers multiple perspectives from found material from both sides of the Pacific conflict. Both are well worth reading.
---David Caddy, Tears in the Fence (full review at: tearsinthefence.com/2014/01/25/tony-barnstones-beast-in-the-apartment/)
Tony Barnstone's collection rests on gentle morbidity and time-keeping sorrows yet exudes energy and contingency.
The reader is frequently reminded that, even in the darkest ways, we are connected with humans and nature, as if we are alljoined as one as the "planet [is] breathing" ("The Empty Apartment").
--Alexis Gobel, TAB, The Journal of Poetry and Poetics (journals.chapman.edu/ojs/index.php/TAB-Journal/article/viewFile/985/1128)
Barnstone's previous books include, The Golem Of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008), which exudes a joyful playfulness in its modern psalms, parables, testaments, sermons, sutras and gospels, and Tongue of War: from Pearl Harbor to Nagaski (BkMk Press, 2009), which offers multiple perspectives from found material from both sides of the Pacific conflict. Both are well worth reading.
---David Caddy, Tears in the Fence (full review at: tearsinthefence.com/2014/01/25/tony-barnstones-beast-in-the-apartment/)
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- PublisherSheep Meadow Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1937679349
- ISBN 13 9781937679347
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