Synopses & Reviews
"Incredibly moving and smart, this book is indeed a world in place of itself, and more, in place of the world we thought we knew. With stunning metaphors, fast-paced leaps and tone shifts within a seamless art, we discover new ways of seeing at almost every line, a palimpsest of visions in every poem of this fabulous book."-Richard Jackson
With fervent physical and metaphysical detail, and narrating from an unexpected angle of perception, Bill Rasmovicz plumbs the world ghosting this one, exposing the true nature of the unconscious-a superconscious whose language is startlingly apt imagery and ecstatic description.
From "On Becoming Light":
And there it was, the moth;
a child's hand wrestling itself in the grass.
Delirious, it fumbled its way out from the dark umbrella
of a tree, then landed on the stoop.
A frayed rope of light swung from the porch.
The moon was gorged on the dewy foment of summer.
I set my hand near, and it fluttered into my palm:
its weight no more than breath, its wings,
laments hammered into sheets of dust.
Bill Rasmoviczis a graduate of the MFA writing program at Vermont College and Temple University School of Pharmacy. His poetry has appeared in Mid-American Review, Nimrod, Hunger Mountain, Third Coast, and other magazines. He lives in New York City.
Review
Incredibly moving and smart, this book is indeed a world in place of itself, and more, in place of the world we thought we knew. With stunning metaphors, fast-paced leaps and tone shifts within a seamless art, we discover new ways of seeing at almost every line, a palimpsest of visions in every poem of this fabulous book.”Richard Jackson
"Bill Rasmovicz gives us the world in fine detail. City life, shoreline, night, loss and its shadow, desirethese come to us through an intelligence fully attuned to metaphors striking shifts from sight to insight. This is lyric poetry at its best, fully accomplished, probing, deeply felt, with delicate wit and languageoh the language!stunning enough to pass Miss Dickinsons test."Betsy Sholl
"The clear intensity of the visionary requires stillness, not high speeds. And there is a restlessness at the heart of such stillness that Bill Rasmoviczs first book gets at more exquisitelywith a voice that can bear itthan any Ive read in years. His surreal practices are humanizing faith-keepings with the metamorphic, the elemental, the actual."William Olsen
Synopsis
This neo-baroque, hypnotic debut reads like transcribed fever dreams, employing elements of film noir and surrealism.
Synopsis
Poetry. "Incredibly moving and smart, this book is indeed a world in place of itself, and more, in place of the world we thought we knew. With stunning metaphors, fast-paced leaps and tone shifts within a seamless art, we discover new ways of seeing at almost every line, a palimpsest of visions in every poem of this fabulous book"--Richard Jackson. This baroque, hypnotic debut reads like transcribed fever dreams, employing elements of film noir and surrealism. With fervent physical and metaphysical detail, and narrating from an unexpected angle of perception, Rasmovicz plumbs the world ghosting this one, exposing the true nature of the unconscious--a superconscious whose language is startlingly apt imagery and ecstatic description. Bill Rasmovicz is a graduate of the Masters of Fine Arts in Writing Program at Vermont College and Temple University School of Pharmacy. His poetry has appeared in Mid-American Review, Nimrod, Hunger Mountain, Third Coast, Puerto Del Sol and other magazines. He lives in New York City.
Synopsis
With fervent physical and metaphysical detail, and narrating from an unexpected angle of perception, Bill Rasmovicz plumbs the world ghosting this one, exposing the true nature of the unconsciousa superconscious whose language is startlingly apt imagery and ecstatic description.
About the Author
Bill Rasmovicz is a graduate of the MFA writing program at Vermont College and Temple University School of Pharmacy. His poetry has appeared in Mid-American Review, Nimrod, Hunger Mountain, Third Coast, and other magazines. He lives in New York City.