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Well aware of hurtling headlong into death--the poet turned 70 in the year of the book's publication--and watching many of his close poet and other friends dying around him, he has attempted to catch and call up their voices through his writings through their works. For many years now, Messerli, using finely tuned collage methods, has taken small bits and pieces of the works of other writers, piecing them together with his own poetic thoughts and associations in order to subtly rehear their voices and to re-image his time with them as a reader and a friend. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Of course, this is not a literal summoning up of them, Messerli writes. The dead can never speak again, nor will the living ever quite speak again what they have in the past. I'm not trying to summon up their voices, like a looney medium as much as I attempt to comprehend their own writings and voices through my own memories, through my own interpretations. Writing through another person's work, whether they're living or dead, is a plea for them, for what I remember of them, to stay on for just a few moments more so that I might hear what I might of missed when I last spoke to them or, in the case of the dead, when they were living. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe numerous voices of these poems--Th r se Bachand, Howard Fox, Susan Howe, Robert Kelly, David Kinloch, Sarah Law, Michael Lentz, Clarence Major, Bernadette Mayer, Martin Nakell, Marjorie Perloff, Dennis Phillips, Meredith Quartermain, Reina Mar a Rodriguez, Joe Ross, Standard Schaefer, Cole Swensen, Paul Vangelisti, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Can Xue among the living; and Djuna Barnes, David Bromige, Hugo Claus, Inger Christensen, Carolos Drummond de Andrade, Christopher Middleton, Adriano Spatola, Jack Spicer, Arseny Takrovsky, John Wieners, Charles Wine, and Louis Zukofsky among the dead--are not based on any person encounters with Messerli (indeed several of these figures he never met), but are called up in tone by their own writings in order to create a contemporary interchange with their own writings. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinally, \u003ci\u003eStay\u003c\/i\u003e is Messerli's most clear embracement of his own landscape, in this case California, that he has ever revealed. 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The prose poem is an overnight bag which the writer must pack carefully, given there's room only for essentials. Most of McGookey's prose poems run fewer than two hundred words. (Clare MacQueen) In these stunning prose poems--full of family and beautiful birds, loss and quiet observation, color and so much light--McGookey has written lines that will blind you with a luminescence that springs from precision and tender attention to detail. Her explorations of daily life are by turns yearning, metaphorical, and grounded in the holy ordinary. 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These poems are a great ticket, existing as tremendous short scripts for the films she directs in our heads.”  --Michael Delp, Lying in the River’s Dark Be  Kathleen McGookey has published two full-length collections of poems and two chapbooks.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52757323743505,"sku":"NIN9781945680021","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52821009531153,"sku":"NLS9781945680021","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781945680021.jpg?v=1763578522"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-kathleen-mcgookey.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}