"Michael Rectenwald's new collection of poems, Breach, offers a
powerful and yet humble vision of the world where the poet has
found new inroads to connectedness. Rectenwald manages to embrace
and resist his subjects all at once-his authority is relinquished
and, as such, the poems are invitations to the readers. He speaks
not for us or to us, but with us: 'The lone tree quotes the
aesthetic of/all trees so all trees/don't have to be trees.' The
strength of these poems is not in the breach of contract with the
world, but the breach in confidence and authority... a leap into
humility and the unknown. These poems will connect you to a world
you think you already know." - Rob Fitterman, author of twelve
books of poetry, including Rob The Plagiarist, and Now We Are
Friends. "The speaker of Michael Rectenwald's 'Split Personalities'
says, 'we sting to survive.' Another turns 'Togetherness' into a
Lennonesque walrus of self-doubt. And in 'My Son Signals, ' the
speaker concludes, 'The world's nothing but/one gesturing
after/another.' "In Breach, his new collection of poems, Michael
Rectenwald stings, doubts, gestures. His forms range from the
metered-and-rhymed, to the prose poem. His music ranges from
post-doc analytics to morning after confessionals. The poems are
surreal, hyperreal, they posit debtors in space, and wind up
landing in Topeka, Kansas. It's a wild ride. Exhaustion and promise
coexist in the same line: 'It seems like the autumn of my youth.'
Wisdom pours forth from children: 'Look Daddy ... the future is
MOVING.' "Yes, it is. And so is Breach." - Tim Tomlinson, co-author
of the Portable MFA; co-founder, New York Writers Workshop
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