In his second collection of poetry, David Anthony Martin uses the
mirror of nature and the lens of experience to reveal the depths of
the experience of life. His poetry illuminates the beauty of the
world and reflects an abiding affection for family, nature, and
language itself. Martin's personality shines in every phrase and
image, and his poetry dances between ecstatic joy and monastic
reverence. In telling his stories he reveals a thread of
contemporary contemplation and a continuing exploration of the
interior landscapes of life and love, feelings and fears, of
growing up and growing together.
"Thoreau, Cid Corman, Lorine Niedecker, Whalen & Snyder, Sam
Hamill and now David Martin, a wilderness walker returning as the
missing lynx in the lineage of nature based poetry heartbeating
it's way into our gorges & forests" Mike Parker, author of
"Don't Fall Off The Mountain," "Wallflower Sutra" and "Walking on
Water in a Razorblade Breeze."
Many of these poems to function as mini-meditations where the
inner world and outer worlds become interchangeable mirrors
reflecting each other, in others they each become lenses through
which to deeper examine the other.
"Deepening the Map " shows a reverence for the natural world that
verges on sacred relationship; a relationship which inspires the
poets sense of connection and meaning. Martin explores deeper
territory and shows us the interconnectedness; the subtle web
between all things in the increasingly complex relationship between
humankind and nature.
As the title poem denotes how we see the world can make all the
difference, and these poems are keys to doors of perception
offering a sense of the wholeness of the world. These doors, or
gateless gates, open into a world dominated by nature, especially
by animals in language that explores themes which personal and
universal, mythic and elemental. These poems impart emotion in a
quiet, thoughtful and conversational manner, as though one were
leafing through an album of a friend.
It has been said that Martin is equally at home writing
acorn-tight three line poems as well as the sprawling streams of
forty-liners, and in Deepening the Map he offers us more of both.
He balances the seemingly simple, but powerful and thought
provoking "h ear t" with the undeniable, urgent romanticism of
"vessels."
Regardless of poem size or structure, prevailing throughout is an
excellent eye and ear for detail and a finger on the pulse of the
heart of the matter at hand. These are poems to read and re-read,
poems that transport the reader into another world that is actually
our world; as William Butler Yeats said, "There is another world,
but it is inside this one."
"David Anthony Martin is a nature poet the way Frank O'Hara was a
city poet. He has paid attention, assimilated the beauty and
mystery of his surroundings, and let it color his poetry in
delicate ways." Corey Mesler, author of "Before the Great
Troubling, Following Richard Brautigan " and "Notes Toward the
Story and Other Stories."
"Your eyes, eyes of a bard." Janine Pommy Vega, author of "The
Green Piano, Tracking The Serpent" and " Mad Dogs of Trieste"
"" Deepening the Map" is a collection that eloquently takes the
reader from mountain peaks, to the depths of canyons, the
limitlessness of open fields, but ultimately awakens our humanity.
And the threats our humanity has on nature. This is a collection of
work that will leave beautiful sketches in the mind while etching
compassion in the heart of the reader." Marie Loerzel, author of
"Rock the Kasbah: A Memoir of Misadventure"
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