I've now purchased and read Poems of the American West. Another Spherean, past Lariat Tim Steele, is represented by his poem "A Shore." As is Professor Mezey with translations from Borges and Zbigniew Herbert. It is a thrill for me to have four of my little poems appear alongside traditional classics like the Grateful Dead's "Me and my Uncle," and "The Streets of Laredo." The volume is a gorgeous little hardcover that will slip in your jeans pocket, backpackable from the White Mountains to the Cascades, or anywhere in between. Here at the Sphere we are probably excessively focused on getting the meters right. It was fun for me to read a volume in which the rhythms are so often so rough but ready to please, and I commend it to all our members, East and West. Put this one on your Xmas list.
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