Definite congratulations on this, Mark. I'm sure, it's a beautiful
looking book too, being Chax.
Doug
On 19-Jul-10, at 3:59 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
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> New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
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> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation
> of particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word,
> and through every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a
> part, Weiss’ fragments are like Chekhov’s short stories the more
> that gets left out, the more they seem to contain… One can hear
> echoes from all the various ancestors...[but] the voice, at its
> center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment is
> both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure musical threnody…[it]
> opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a personality,
> this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
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> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket. http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
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Douglas Barbour
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