Walking Tooth & Cloud - Softcover

Desilver, Albert Flynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2914853084 ISBN 13: 9782914853088

Publisher: French Connection Press, 2007

Synopsis

Poetry. WALKING TOOTH & CLOUD, the new collection of prose poems from California poet Albert Flynn DeSilver, reaches "into your skull and reshape[s] and reshape[s] your brain like wax after lighting its wick"-Ian Ayres. "The pronoun I in its word-tissue forest...'a book of elastic steel, an opposable piano.' Meet tea leaf man, iced-over man, and others, as the inside-outside window collapses. 'I am wind in the paper.' Beautiful. 'I alone as mirror to the world'''--Alice Notley.

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About the Author

ALBERT FLYNN DESILVER has recently begun his tenure as Marin County's very first poet laureate. He is the author, most recently of Letters to Early Street (La Alameda Press, 2007), and Walking Tooth & Cloud (French Connection Press, 2007). Albert has published more than one hundred poems in literary journals worldwide including Zyzzyva, New American Writing, Jubilat, Jacket (Australia), Poetry Kanto (Japan), Van Gogh's Ear (France), Hanging Loose, Exquisite Corpse, and many others. Some of his letters in correspondence with the poet Paul Hoover will be featured in the new book Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia Books, 2008).

Review

"Prose poems you won t want to miss! The pronoun I in its word-tissue forest . . . a book of elastic steel, an opposable piano. Meet tea leaf man, iced-over man, and others, as the inside-outside window collapses. I am wind in the paper. Beautiful. I alone as mirror to the world." Alice Notley --live from Paris

"Albert Flynn DeSilver s poems are filled with a sunny, kinetic plenitude." Richard Silberg --Poetry Flash

"Albert Flynn DeSilver s prosoid utterances ruffle the edges of the dreamscape. A peculiar(ly) contemporary western milieu creeps into view, declares itself, then recedes into the page s quiet. It s a little as if Robert Walser s microshriften were being secretly reconstituted in American English by a young Californian night laborer, seated at desk, humming away contentedly to himself." Steve Dickison --The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University

About this edition

• Publisher: French Connection Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 2914853084
• ISBN 13: 9782914853088
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64