"J. Tarwood's And For The Mouth A Flower remembers some of the original ideas of the Walt Whitman who wrote the Calamus poems—it has something to do with our poor affections for one another and an almost sacred belief that everything profound about this life issues from what is most mundane, most unmistakably in the daily life."
— Norman Dubie is the author of The Volcano, The Insomniac Liar of Topo, and The Mercy Seat.
"Ah, J. Tarwood's world, where words are bullets and bullets are a blessing: The mind's a goat without a bell. Traffic's blood. Ants under a magnifying glass steam like tanks. A teacher's thrashed to a blizzard of bone. Get it? The economy of force. Page after page. Come in. You're welcome."
— Bruce Sager is the author of Famous and The Pumping Station, two award-winning books of poetry.
J. TARWOOD has been a dishwasher, a community organizer, a medical archivist, a documentary film producer, an oral historian, and a teacher. Much of his life has been spent in East Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.
He has published two previous books, The Cats In Zanzibar and Grand Detour. He has always been an unlikely man in unlikely places.
Front cover photo by Mikasi.
ISBN 978-1-938144-21-9
$15.00 BrickHouse Books ISBN: 978-1-938144-21-9
Baltimore Magazine's BEST of BALTIMORE 2013 WINNER
"J. Tarwood's And For The Mouth A Flower remembers some of the original ideas of the Walt Whitman who wrote the Calamus poems—it has something to do with our poor affections for one another and an almost sacred belief that everything profound about this life issues from what is most mundane, most unmistakably in the daily life."
— Norman Dubie is the author of The Volcano, The Insomniac Liar of Topo, and The Mercy Seat.
"Ah, J. Tarwood's world, where words are bullets and bullets are a blessing: The mind's a goat without a bell. Traffic's blood. Ants under a magnifying glass steam like tanks. A teacher's thrashed to a blizzard of bone. Get it? The economy of force. Page after page. Come in. You're welcome."
— Bruce Sager is the author of Famous and The Pumping Station, two award-winning books of poetry.
J. TARWOOD has been a dishwasher, a community organizer, a medical archivist, a documentary film producer, an oral historian, and a teacher. Much of his life has been spent in East Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.
He has published two previous books, The Cats In Zanzibar and Grand Detour. He has always been an unlikely man in unlikely places.
Front cover photo by Mikasi.
ISBN 978-1-938144-21-9
$15.00 BrickHouse Books ISBN: 978-1-938144-21-9
Baltimore Magazine's BEST of BALTIMORE 2013 WINNER
