[Michael Cantor]

I’m pleased to let Eratosphere friends know that my new book, Furusato - 120 pages of Michael Cantor talking about himself, in one guise or another – is now available from Kelsay Press and Amazon. Details in the link. Contact me by PM if you want a signed one mailed to you.

[John Isbell]

Congratulations!

Cheers,
John

[Julie Steiner]

I've been waiting years and years for this. Woohoo! It's done!

[Simon Hunt]

Fabulous. Congratulations!

[Martin Elster]

Excellent, Michael. Glad to hear about it. Congrats!

[R. Nemo Hill]

Congratulations, Michael.

Nemo

[Erik Olson]

Fantastic news, Michael. Huge congratulations!

[Allen Tice]

At last things have slowed to a walking pace, and today I found time to open Michael's package and leaf into Furusato. Which means I will very soon surprise him with the check in the mail for his book, snugly wrapped inside a classics meeting handout of mine oozing with fresh processed wabi-sabi nut butter.

It's an attractive book, with many poems I have only flipped among. I just stopped on "Trochees Are the Perfect Fix" (p.79), whose seventh and eighth lines are "Trochees are the poet's perfect fix -- stone / Fences that provide a perfect high," and ends with "a touch of frost." Landscape, weather, puns, and certain ilk turn up there too.

PS: It's Michael's book, not mine. Iona copy now though.