"These poems, whatever their austerities and wildness, their sober tones, their elegiac moods, erudition, humble anecdotes, stands for peace, cut-up romps, self-portraits, playful and sweeping improvisations, and absurdist ploys are situated in a somewhere—a house, a town, another poet’s oeuvre, a brilliant sense of history." —Carla Harryman, Cloud Cantata
Far-Dale
Dennis Barone
ISBN-13: 978-1-962890-09-0
With the publication of Far-Dale, Dennis Barone’s collection of new and selected poems, we are given a panoramic view of this accomplished poet’s decades-long commitment to the power of poetry to confront the human predicament. The poems in this important volume interrogate memory and experience, beauty and loss in a stunning range of forms and styles, from the compressed to the expansive, the narrative to the abstract...But no matter the form, style, or subject matter, Barone’s direct, humane gaze drills down to our depths, delivering his findings in a wise and companionable voice. With an expansive erudition untainted by pretension, he brings us face to face with what it means to be human.
—Susan Lewis, author of Zoom and editor of Posit $18.50
Cover Painting, Blue Horizon, 2020 by April Gornik. See the full-sized version here.
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