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TOM ALLEN – WATCH-FIRES
ISBN 978-1-091998-96-4. Published January 2015.
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This is Tom Allen’s first book: a long poem with a Coda for Diane Di Prima. Inside, stones, clocks, fires, rivers, screaming pigs, the singing dead, ein guter mensch, Hell approached across a series of lines and pages in various potential or actual manifestations and angles. At times the poem’s lines seem to gesture towards the quality of aphorism, but also to place that quality in a different and more fraught, tautly-held suspense, chiselled and “slow. slow”, yet far from decorous: fully freighted and fully forceful.
38pp, card covers, side-stapled
OUT OF PRINT. [But available online at Free Trials: click here.]
OUT OF PRINT. [But available online at Free Trials: click here.]