Haunting sketches from the leanest light of memories, from spare
& sharp boned emotions. Kauffman's ghostly lyrics are evocative
traceries, fissures of words. Catherine Owen, author of nine
collections of poetry including the AB Literary Prize winning
collection Frenzy (Anvil Press 2009). There is a quiet grace and a
persistent fierceness at work in Bruce Kauffman's first full length
collection of poetry. Grounded in the contemplative tradition, each
poem serves as a way-marker along a desire-line. Kauffman's voice
is intimate and direct, perceptive and guiding-there is a real
honesty here. Sandra Ridley, author of Fallout, winner of the 2010
Saskatchewan Book Award for Publishing, and Post-Apothecary (2011).
Here is a poet who pays rapt attention to both the agony and
ecstasy of being alive, who hears not only "crystalline echoes/of
empty hearts/calling," but also gazes with wonder at the
"multicoloured forest/of mirror/and glass." Bruce Kauffman doesn't
establish his voice as a grand authority, but rather, as a seeker,
a sojourner; his is a poetry of both wisdom, negative capability,
yet also humility, a poetic world in which the flowers in the
window box "understood the rain/far better than i." The cosmos is
bigger, older, and wiser, and Kauffman gives himself over to its
rhythms, both dark and light. Jeanette Lynes, author of The New
Blue Distance, The Factory Voice and 5 collections of poetry. If
you boiled the world in a pot, the steam would resemble Bruce
Kauffman's poetry. Personal. Universal. Elegiac. Prayerful. The
poems in this book are timeless mirrors reflecting a world that
belongs to everyone, a world stripped down to its spiritual bones.
Jason Heroux, author of the poetry collection Emergency Hallelujah
(Mansfield Press) and the novella Good Evening, Central Laundromat
(Quattro Books).
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