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Areas of Fog
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Joseph Massey (Goodreads Author)
Poetry. One needs only to watch and listen in gratitude as poems informed by Bronk, Niedecker, Olson (to name a few), and the landscape of Humboldt County, California, take shape in AREAS OF FOG, Joseph Massey's first full-length collection. "Joseph Massey sees with a composer's eye and sings in a microtonality all his own. Syllable by syllable phenomena miraculously ...more
116 pages
Published
March 15th 2009
by Shearsman Books
(first published 2009)
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The poems in this collection are sparse, sculpted slivers that rely on line breaks every few syllables. Lines like “Honeysuckle / scent like / an open vowel / wrung out / in the rain’s gloss- /olalia,” from the poem “Property Line” seem to maximize this form. However, the rapid pace can be too much as in: “This / insists / winter’s / bruise / in you; / a word, / love, / a wind.” For the reader, moments are slowed down. Tension builds. The result is a collection of poetry that asks to be re...more
Massey's first book is a beautiful series of spare, environmental poems. He's clearly influenced by the imagist ideal--most of the poems trade in lines of 2 to 3 syllables and evoke some striking object in the natural world. Some of them are quite stunning, and I'll definitely keep an eye out for Massey's future work.
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THIS IS AN AMAZING YEAR FOR POETRY!
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I've created a (Soma)tic Reading Enhancement for it, which you can see at the ATTENTION SPAN 2009 List here: http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/0...
THIS IS AN AMAZING YEAR FOR POETRY!
CAConrad
http://CAConrad.blogspot.com
when i first read Massey, it took me a bit to fall in love with the work. now i am pushing it on friends & telling them this is where its at. to quote my friend brad's maxim - "sacrifice everything to the clean line" -- joseph massey has.
Really good poetry that combines the images of nature with the authors impressions of life.
I loved every page of this book.The British publisher Shearsman is putting out some really great books by U.S. poets (see also Richard Deming, Anthony Hawley, and Nancy Kuhl).
Joseph Massey's poems deceive you, first with their brevity, then with their impact relative to their size.'Arcata Marsh' is a representative poem for me, a terse and agile nine-liner that, unlike some other nature poems, rests confidently on its posts and dares to leave enough whitespace to hear the marsh noises. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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Mesmerizing. This poet will be read in 100 years.
Pretty, meditative poetry that is essentially just descriptions of nature scenes. Not my usual bag, but surprisingly enjoyable.
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Joseph Massey is the author of Areas of Fog (Shearsman Books, 2009) and At the Point (Shearsman Books, 2011), as well as numerous limited-edition chapbooks.
His work has appeared in various journals and magazines, including The Nation, Asterisk, A Public Space, Tight, Carve, Northwest Review, and American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, among many others.
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His work has appeared in various journals and magazines, including The Nation, Asterisk, A Public Space, Tight, Carve, Northwest Review, and American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, among many others.
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