Released in 2006 . . .
Three New Titles from First Intensity Press
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Threads by Robert Kelly—$18 “In these incisive, lyrical meditations, Kelly tracks being’s shining through existence as ‘pure presence,’ and reminds us that as wood is present in the sculpture of a god, so the tree is present in the wood. Without the mindfulness of such ‘threads,’ silence could be forgotten as the ground of speech, the un-namable as the heart of knowledge, and poetry as the source of language.” —Charles Borkhuis From the Foreward by the author: “Sentences have always haunted me. Diagramming them in grammar school… Parsing. Their shapes. The bones of meaningfulness on which scraps of flesh or silks might drape for a moment. And when they’re gone, the framework is still there. …The skeleton at the feast of meaning, of love. The barebones, structures, structure itself. Articulate. Articulated skeleton of medical student: wired, wired to move as a body could. Words strung lightly on a sense of form. Threads is my fealty to the tyranny of the sentence.” |
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Bulle/Chimére by James Thomas Stevens—$16 A brilliant new collection of poems by the author of TOKINISH, COMBING THE SNAKES FROM HIS HAIR, (dis)ORIENT, MOHAWK/SAMOA: TRANSMIGRATIONS (with Caroline Sinavaiana) and other books. Bulle (bubble) / Chimére (chimera) represents some of the most arresting of Stevens’s deeply sensuous and intricately crafted poetry—a return to “the personal” that offers an acute reminder of the heights and breadths of intensity that human love can attain.” |
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Bounce by Duncan McNaughton—$15 Here is the inimitable McNaughton's latest collection of poems, delivered with the unrelieved honesty, acute hilarity and unadorned tenderness that have come to mark his work over a lifetime's attention. These poems are deceptively accessible, and delightfully intense.
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