(HEY, STEPHEN!!!!)
David Gitin reading with Jack Marshall on Mar 21st, 7:30 PM, at Moe's Books in Berkeley, CA (2476 Telegraph Ave.)
David Gitin**********
From my blurb for PASSING THROUGH at Amazon.com:
David Gitin once told me that "poetry is rhythm and blues, person to person". PASSING THROUGH conveys "the pass of energy" from author to reader just as Gitin described. His extraordinary ear for music is reflected in the rhythms of not only each poem but that of PASSING THROUGH as a whole. The music, the work's lyric value, is one of the elements that conveys the humanity of these poems. The attention to song as fundamental in PASSING THROUGH is one thing that sets this book apart from most modern poetry. Gitin's poetry resides comfortably along side ancient Greek lyrics, Zen haiku, the experimental music of John Cage and Clapton's guitar.
Ron Silliman notes in his blog, "Gitin as always is at once the most precise writer imaginable & a very restless imagination, a great combination. These poems push-pull on the reader in ways that are as unpredictable as writing as they are as real-world experiences."
And Lyn Hejinian,"I was pulled in and read through it. The experience was delightful. Every phrase is compelling."
I also agree with Michael McClure,"Gitin is a master of subtle rhythms that ear and eye blend on the field of the senses."
Once in a great while a book of poetry comes along that makes a difference in our perceptions of what poetry is and can be. PASSING THROUGH is one of those books.
Jack Marshal****************
Jack Marshall never lets readers forget that they are meat-on-the-bone, organic beings subject to the opposing drives of inherited culture and the urge toward greater consciousness. In signature language that is unadorned, yet musical and beautifully precise, Marshall explores the recent innovative advances in science and ecology, the complications of growing up with an Arabic Jewish heritage, of love, loss and memory in a world demystified by harsh politics and re-enchanted by compassion.
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