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Mark Young
Sandy Press
88 pages
ISBN: 978-1736816059
Price: $US19.95
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Michael Gottlieb writes in his introduction that, following on from his Songs to Come for the Salamander, and Sorties, Mark Young continues to share the poems he writes every day, nearly every day. And we are the better for it. These are poems about what he sees. What he wants to see. What – he knows – we, the readers, need to see. And now we do see. And John Geraets adds that the world seems intent on losing its sense of magic, but Mark Young is less than convinced. His irrepressibility as a poet means that he somehow manages to enter the door that others are in the process of leaving, and vice versa. He is master over poetic language as a reflexive tool, in which the world’s coming and going are free to spin round each other, tellingly, enthrallingly. Your order is now equipped for shipping continues to show that his poetry is as significant in the present day as any we have before us.

Today the post-
woman brought
me The Shorter
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lost for words.

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Surprise! An accordion track I like.

Mind you, it is Bach.

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Today the post-
woman brought
me a bandicoot.

Don't ask.

Normal service will be resumed once Elvis has left the Meditation Garden, & that isn't likely to happen for some time yet. Though I am thinking on it.

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