Dear Gabriel - I'm a bit part player in the poetry world of Australia
and would sincerely like to review your book. It sounds relevant to me
on many levels: daily poetry, a practice I just achieved while in
China for one year (in a filthy dirty part of); divorce and tenderness
and love towards daughter (yep); thinking/writing on the road - where
I live for awhile is in the remote outback of Australia's far north,
so I write by plane and road at times; a cycle of poems including
essays - I'm just putting together such a manuscript from my China
experience, poems and then responses to pollution, education system,
language (still in process of manuscript shaping) ... etcetera.
'Etcetera' is a dirty word in my book, but what I mean is I relate to
present contemporary poetic practice because I'm involved in just such
myself - y'unnerstan?

So, I would aim review at Jacket (I know both Pam and John) or,
failing an interest there, Westerly - the literary journal of the
University of Western Australia (where I have been published on and
off since the mid-sixties).

If you are amenable to sending me a copy, here's the address:

Dr Andrew Burke
PMB909
Derby
Western Australia 6728
AUSTRALIA

Cheers - I wish the book a wide and continuing readership.

Andrew


On 04/08/07, Gabriel Gudding <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Advanced Review Copies of *Rhode Island Notebook* by Gabriel Gudding are=20
> now available. 436 pages. Publication Date: Nov. 23, 2007.
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> Perfect bound copies (in advance uncorrected galley) will be sent to=20
> interested reviewers.
>
> For a review copy, please query Martin Riker, [log in to unmask]
> Or write to him at Dalkey Archive Press, University of Illinois, 605 E.=20
> Springfield Ave MC-475, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
>
> Jacket copy: =93Not since *On the Road* has a book been so thoroughly of=20
> the road. *Rhode Island Notebook*--written in Gudding's Toyota during=20
> twenty-six roundtrips between Illinois and Rhode Island=97-chronicles the=
> =20
> breakup of a marriage and the separation of a father and daughter. At=20
> turns angry, comic, kitschy, and lyrical, this book-length poem is an=20
> exorcism of violence both historical and personal. Ultimately intended=20
> as a gift for the driver's daughter, the book also includes essays on=20
> literary narcissism and dung; radio broadcasts; a surreal attack on=20
> Nancy Reagan; much about Iraq; and the story of one man's friendship=20
> with the Shenango River.=94
>
> Blurbs on jacket:
>
> =93Rhode Island Notebook is a modern/postmodern epic as a=20
> poem-including-everything. An incredibly human/humane book at bottom, it=20
> is also Gudding=92s road of excess, as Blake once had it, leading him (&=20
> us) to the palace of wisdom.=94
> -- Jerome Rothenberg
>
> =93What might have been an experiment in conceptual writing has emerged=20
> into an exhilaration that makes me glad I=92m still alive, in the midst o=
> f=20
> critique and highways. This is the first 21st-century classic.=94
> =96- Alan Sondheim
>
> Sections, poems, essays from this book were first published in New=20
> American Writing, Jacket, Aufgabe, LIT, Action Yes, MiPoesias, Salt=20
> Hill, VeRT, L=92Bourgeoizine, Mandorla:Nueva Escritura de Las Am=E9ricas,=
> =20
> Spoon River Poetry Review, Court Green, Backwards City, Counterpath=20
> Online, and in the anthologies, Poetry 30: Thirtysomething American=20
> Thirtysomething Poets, The Other Voices International Poetry Project,=20
> and Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses.
>
> A pr=E9cis of the book will be placed on my website in a week's time:=20
> http://gabrielgudding.blogspot.com/
>


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Andrew
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