Necessary Motions

by Sam Rasnake

Book by Rasnake, Sam

57 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Sam Rasnake’s works, receiving five nominations for the Pushcart Prize, have appeared in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Best of the Web 2009, MiPOesias Companion 2012, Wigleaf, OCHO, Big Muddy, Literal Latté, LUMMOX 2012, BOXCAR Poetry Review Anthology 2, and Dogzplot Flash Fiction 2011. His latest poetry collection is Cinéma Vérité, published by A-Minor Press, 2013. He edits, along with Michelle Elvy, Blue Fifth Review, an online journal of poetry, flash, and art, and has served as a judge for the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

[Brett Marcus Cook · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh. Damn. Okay.

It's not often I find an artist of any kind whose work is so inscrutable yet powerful, and I can mostly count them on one hand: Andrei Tarkovsky, Pina Bausch, Andy the Doorbum, and...my wife's high school creative writing teacher?? She handed me this poetry book telling me it's her favorite, and every poem got me, right in the heart, stirring something in my soul the way those other names have in a way that feels intangible. It was such a beautiful thing to read.