Hi--just back from a week's trip: in the interim received the following
email flyer & don't think I saw this sent to the list. --N
Nate & Jane Dorward
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109 Hounslow Ave., Willowdale, ON, M2N 2B1, Canada
ph: (416) 221 6865
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New from O Books - 5729 Clover Drive, Oakland CA 94618-1622.
(www.obooks.com) 510-601-9588 fax
Distributed by Small Press Distribution: 1341 Seventh Street, Berkeley, CA
94710. (www.spdbooks.com) (800) 869-7553 phone
If ordering from O Books, add $2 postage.
Tottering State, Tom Raworth. ISBN # 1-882022-38-6. 2000. 240 pages. $15.00
Tom Raworth's lines are "passing near the black hole/in ordinary flat space"
radically estranging the visual field by jumping time. This new edition of
Tottering State contains additional early poems, and includes the complete
text of Writing, long out of print. Robert Creeley has said about Raworth's
poetry: "Tom Raworth is the one who's truly most interesting to me in
England at the moment. I'm fascinated by what he's doing. He's an
extraordinary poet."
"The writings in this Tottering State are ardent, wry, wise, brilliant -
they are subtle and momentous. They are responsive to the minute as to the
massive pressures that language and life exert. They are explorations, not
outcomes. And yet they make demands, and consequences continually occur.
Some of these consequences are funny (Tom Raworth has a tragedian's sense of
the comic as one of life's fated inevitabilities), some are frightening or
sad. These are among the greatest writings of our times." - Lyn Hejinian
"In the permanent trouble of postmodern the glassblown lucky striking into
the doped heart of the time bomb bar tab royal pardoning handlewithcare
gestures of a little/out side that's mine are the fierce loving
exquisiteness of Tom Raworth. The work is a comasyouare ritual reengagement
with the music of those crystals set/in joints of syntax never administered
or bullied or mediated but instantaneously politic in a civil war ahead of
the traffic." - Heather Fuller
"Tom Raworth wants to get all the way round the railroad earth before the
bell rings, one of the few who even try, & we get these tottering states,
equal parts light and dark of mind, lavished on us when he does, & he often
does
- Anselm Berrigan
"Stretched tight across Life while allowing both mind & eye to breathe, this
writing orients reading on the set where the action is. The backcloth is
limitless/polychromatic (& no, the walls of the ego are not the walls of the
set). As Shorty Fleming noticed while out picking plums: 'Tom Raworth's
)ed through that fence.'" - Miles Champion
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