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PublisherOmnidawn Publishing
ISBN-101890650978
ISBN-139781890650971
eBay Product ID (ePID)201582134
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Book TitleTo Keep Time
Number of Pages92 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSubjects & Themes / Nature, Subjects & Themes / Places, General
Publication Year2014
GenrePoetry
AuthorJoseph Massey
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0 in
Item Weight5.9 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2014-013753
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Silence itself is revealed to be a highly charged and active field, "Silence hums." So does this book."-Tom Thompson , Tom Thompson's Periodic Recess, "All of the poems... radiate a minimalist beauty and leave the reader with a heightened appreciation of the interplay between silence and the poetry which interrupts that silence."-Sonja James, The Journal, "The shining sliver of cellophane litter, for me, bears as much weight, aesthetically, as any flower in bloom."-Cosmo Spinosa and Housten Donham, Open House, "To Keep Time paints the unique landscape and microclimate of Humboldt County, Calif., where modern life collides with nature."-Publishers Weekly, "At certain points, he departs from his observations of the aural and the visible, struggling to reach for some insight into the stillness before it "re-/ coils into noise" and is drowned out in the loud racket of the mind. These moments of vulnerability blur the lines between Massey's inner anxiety and the calm of the immediate environment, providing an element of fragility and sophistication to his small, glinting pieces. As he alternates between the sounds and sights of Humboldt County, Massey encounters the way "Mind/ mirrors/ that surface,/ shape,/ the moment/ I imagine/ if I thought/ far enough/ I'd leave my/ face."", "Massey's images are so clear, so lucid, so adamantly, palpably there, that you begin to wonder if this young man isn't, in fact, a walking 3D camera. But the wonder of it is, it isn't merely the images that so astonish: he's got what I call the 'Niedecker knack,' the capacity to bring sharp linguistic play to an éclat of exquisite clarity, precision to a blossoming of speech, transcendence to a piece of string." -John Olson, author of Larynx Galaxy: Prose Poems,, The shining sliver of cellophane litter, for me, bears as much weight, aesthetically, as any flower in bloom., Massey's images are so clear, so lucid, so adamantly, palpably there, that you begin to wonder if this young man isn't, in fact, a walking 3D camera. But the wonder of it is, it isn't merely the images that so astonish: he's got what I call the 'Niedecker knack,' the capacity to bring sharp linguistic play to an clat of exquisite clarity, precision to a blossoming of speech, transcendence to a piece of string., "At certain points, he departs from his observations of the aural and the visible, struggling to reach for some insight into the stillness before it "re-/ coils into noise" and is drowned out in the loud racket of the mind. These moments of vulnerability blur the lines between Massey's inner anxiety and the calm of the immediate environment, providing an element of fragility and sophistication to his small, glinting pieces. As he alternates between the sounds and sights of Humboldt County, Massey encounters the way "Mind/ mirrors/ that surface,/ shape,/ the moment/ I imagine/ if I thought/ far enough/ I'd leave my/ face."" -Publishers Weekly (starred review), All of the poems... radiate a minimalist beauty and leave the reader with a heightened appreciation of the interplay between silence and the poetry which interrupts that silence., "At certain points, he departs from his observations of the aural and the visible, struggling to reach for some insight into the stillness before it "re-/ coils into noise" and is drowned out in the loud racket of the mind. These moments of vulnerability blur the lines between Massey's inner anxiety and the calm of the immediate environment, providing an element of fragility and sophistication to his small, glinting pieces. As he alternates between the sounds and sights of Humboldt County, Massey encounters the way "Mind/ mirrors/ that surface,/ shape,/ the moment/ I imagine/ if I thought/ far enough/ I'd leave my/ face."" - Publishers Weekly (starred review), "Massey's images are so clear, so lucid, so adamantly, palpably there, that you begin to wonder if this young man isn't, in fact, a walking 3D camera. But the wonder of it is, it isn't merely the images that so astonish: he's got what I call the 'Niedecker knack,' the capacity to bring sharp linguistic play to an éclat of exquisite clarity, precision to a blossoming of speech, transcendence to a piece of string." -John Olson, author of Larynx Galaxy: Prose Poems, "All of the poems... radiate a minimalist beauty and leave the reader with a heightened appreciation of the interplay between silence and the poetry which interrupts that silence."- Sonja James, The Journal, Massey's images are so clear, so lucid, so adamantly, palpably there, that you begin to wonder if this young man isn't, in fact, a walking 3D camera. But the wonder of it is, it isn't merely the images that so astonish: he's got what I call the 'Niedecker knack,' the capacity to bring sharp linguistic play to an éclat of exquisite clarity, precision to a blossoming of speech, transcendence to a piece of string., "All of the poems… radiate a minimalist beauty and leave the reader with a heightened appreciation of the interplay between silence and the poetry which interrupts that silence."-Sonja James, The Journal
Dewey Decimal811/.6
SynopsisJoseph Massey's third collection, To Keep Time, limns the microclimate of coastal Humboldt County, California. These poems live where modern life-radio static, a space heater, traffic-collides with the so-called natural world. With spare, vivid imagery, Massey builds brilliantly on concerns familiar to readers of his earlier works. Here "The near-silence / rattles me // to attention;" here the vagaries of language itself-what's been left out as much as what's been written in-penetrate the heart of these stealthy, aching poems. To Keep Time stops the world's chatter for a moment and listens to its loneliness and longing, and hears the grace in the relentlessness of days., Joseph Massey's third collection, To Keep Time, limns the microclimate of coastal Humboldt County, California. These poems live where modern life--radio static, a space heater, traffic--collides with the so-called natural world. With spare, vivid imagery, Massey builds brilliantly on concerns familiar to readers of his earlier works. Here "The near-silence / rattles me // to attention;" here the vagaries of language itself--what's been left out as much as what's been written in--penetrate the heart of these stealthy, aching poems. To Keep Time stops the world's chatter for a moment and listens to its loneliness and longing, and hears the grace in the relentlessness of days.
LC Classification NumberPS3613.A81933T63
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