There are beautiful poems here—though, on occasion, the reader may be stressed encountering the brilliant imagery of this large, ambitious collection; sometimes it's a little like discovering an erect and hooded cobra in a petting zoo. You are alarmed and checked by what you are made to see. This poet reads Rimbaud. Rimbaud reads this poet. And somewhat in the tradition of Harold Bloom's oldest anxieties, though not of influence, but rather confluence. Wonderful poems! —Norman Dubie, author of The Quotations of Bone and The Volcano
This is a voice of ruthless honesty. If Hemingway wrote poetry this would be it. The poems of this universal expat capture our foibles and follies yet somehow make us care about people like Filipinos trapped in Arabia or the kid who desperately wants to be part of the in-crowd but never will. JT takes you inside so many people and places in the world in a way no other poet that I know can. This is a priceless book. —Bradley R. Strahan, Director of Visions International Arts
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. His previous books are And For The Mouth A Flower, Grand Detour, and The Cats in Zanzibar. He has always been an unlikely man in unlikely places.
ISBN 978-1-938144-54-7
$20.00 BrickHouse Books
There are beautiful poems here—though, on occasion, the reader may be stressed encountering the brilliant imagery of this large, ambitious collection; sometimes it's a little like discovering an erect and hooded cobra in a petting zoo. You are alarmed and checked by what you are made to see. This poet reads Rimbaud. Rimbaud reads this poet. And somewhat in the tradition of Harold Bloom's oldest anxieties, though not of influence, but rather confluence. Wonderful poems! —Norman Dubie, author of The Quotations of Bone and The Volcano
This is a voice of ruthless honesty. If Hemingway wrote poetry this would be it. The poems of this universal expat capture our foibles and follies yet somehow make us care about people like Filipinos trapped in Arabia or the kid who desperately wants to be part of the in-crowd but never will. JT takes you inside so many people and places in the world in a way no other poet that I know can. This is a priceless book. —Bradley R. Strahan, Director of Visions International Arts
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. His previous books are And For The Mouth A Flower, Grand Detour, and The Cats in Zanzibar. He has always been an unlikely man in unlikely places.
ISBN 978-1-938144-54-7
$20.00 BrickHouse Books
