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Arabian
Nights
Poems
by Jack Marshall
"While
Marshall usually deals with the harsher realities of
life - e.g., the passage of time, the difficulties of
love, and the inevitability of loss and death - he does
so with such verve that one is never tempted to see
him in a negative light. . . . Marshall is a master
image maker and an original voice at a time when many
American poets are doing imitations of each other." - Choice
"Jack
Marshall brings heart to everything he writes, and the
clear, quiet voice, a transparency of expression, like
a flow of water or, better, like the fluid action of
an amoeba engulfing and digesting the sharp edges of
idea and image in each poem." - Poetry Flash"The
development of Marshall’s poetry from The Darkest Continent
to Bits of Thirst is a process of contouring, reliefing,
bringing up and fleshing out of the images of a consciousness
amazed by its possibilities but having to fight for
its existence. It is a poetry that parallels closely
(as it invents it) the consciousness of our time."
- American Book Review"The
book’s title has two sources: first, a sequence of poems
about his Arab parents, Syrian immigrants to Brooklyn,
and second, a collection of 13 adaptations from the
13th-century Sufi poet Jelauddin Rumi. Notable in the
first group is the title poem, Marshall’s meditations
on a studio photograph of his recently arrived parents
- contrasting their youth and self-confidence with the
later collapse of their dreams." - Minneapolis
Star Tribune
A critically acclaimed poet, Jack Marshall has received a PEN Center USA West Award, two Bay Area Book Reviewers' Awards, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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