Thanks, Frank for the alert. Good to hear you sounding healthy.
Will try to be there.
SV


> (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.
>
>
>
> ***************************
> Frank Parker
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