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Tau & Journey to the End
Two long-lost volumes from the classic Beat period. Tau is Philip Lamantia's mystical second collection of poems, originally slated for publication in 1955, but suppressed by the poet due to his evolving religious beliefs. Journey to the End contains the poems of the legendary John Hoffman (1928-1952), whose poems were read by Lamantia in 1955 at the 6 Gallery reading where Allen Ginsberg debuted "Howl." Lamantia's closest friend, a character in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums, and the inspiration for two lines of "Howl," Hoffman moved between San Francisco and New York before his death in Mexico at the age of twenty-four. This volume includes biographical notes and Lamantia's commentaries on Hoff man's poetry.
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Hang-Gliding from Helicon
When Daniel Hoffman published a brief volume of selected poems in England, the Times Literary Supplement praised ""his zestful verbal performance, supple use of rhyme and other sound effects"" that ""make the processes of his writing interesting."" That same vitality and interest inform Hang-Gliding from Helicon, which presents more than forty new poems and a generous selection from six of Hoffman's previous books. Commenting on the most recent of these in the Southern Review, Monroe K. Spears wrote, ""Hoffman's new volume seems to me to establish his claim to the title of major poet."" In the New Republic, Josephine Jacobsen observed: ""Three major strands knit into a strong texture: myth, history, and immediate experience . . . What he once wrote of Robert Graves is true of his own work: both combine 'A Dionysian compulsion to belief with an Apollonian clarity of presentation.'""In the opening piece of this volume, entitled ""The Poem,"" Hoffman writes:True to itself, by what craft And strength it has, it has come As a sole survivor returns From the steep pass. Carved on memory's staff The legend is nearly decipherable. It has lived up to its vowsIf it endures The journey through the dark places To bear witness, Casting its message In a sort of singing.Hoffman's poetry is a celebration of life, yet some of his poems have dark implications. ""The City of Satisfactions"" is a journey into the haunted heart of the American dream. ""The Center of Attention"" portrays a suicidal man being taunted by a crowd to jump from a bridge, and ""Witnesses"" explores the aftermath of a car wreck on a desolate stretch of rural highway.Each of Hoffman's poems represents a striking response to the moments of being alive. Hang-Gliding from Helicon affirms the power of poetry to make possible the acceptance and transformation of life. Daniel Hoffman has given us a remarkable statement of his deep poetic faith.
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Notebook of Last Things
Organized around three sequences of numbered tercets, Notebook of Last Things maps a city undergoing dynamic, transformative change along with the sense of living that change—its rhythms and patterns, its peculiar commitments, its urgencies and pleasures as well as its inequalities, tensions, and fateful “unsaids.” Possessed by the drama of the ephemerality of experience, tuned into the drift of the present, Notebook of Last Things draws on the lyric to meditate on the present, and the powers, acknowledged and unacknowledged, that make it up.“Notebook of Last Things is written in dialogue with (or in counterpoint to) Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History and his/her/its “unreadable tally of catastrophe.” Thompson has an eagle eye for the rips and fissures destroying our social fabric, for the discrepancies that seem ironic and then reveal themselves as tragic, the “Art Deco walkway over the beltline/[ with a] Chain link fence to discourage jumpers.” In the quality of his attention, he could be a minimalist version of Ron Silliman or a Basho-inflected George Oppen. His steady gaze is well worth following.” —Rae Armantrout
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Strange Country
"In Strange Country Jon Thompson addresses the voices, amongst others, of 'the traffic of fear', and bids their speakers join the living. It is also an invitation to the reader to enter a specifically American poetry of the here-and-now. The accomplishment of Strange Country begins with the exact measure of its line and its discovered idiom in the face of what may well be termed the present contradictions of a strange country. What sustains that accomplishment is a poet's attention to a 'wide-open polyphony' equal to the multiple realities of its subject." - Kelvin Corcoran
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