Letters to Early Street

by Albert Flynn Desilver

Letters to Early Street is a whimsical epistolary experiment, a turning of the traditional letter onto its poetic ear. Originally begun as letters to a colleague, the writing soon transformed into... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888809507
• ISBN13: 9781888809503
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: La Alameda Press
• Length: 89 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

dear albert,

dear albert, Thank you. Your book, is for me, ... "this knitting with flame"..., a gifted offering in the form and formlessness of words and essence, where writer and witness, poet and page, named and nameless are woven brilliantly into every single stitch and pearl, sparks of life in each magically mundane moment rise up to meet. Your letters, poems, offerings, burn rubber down "early street" while traveling within me on foot, hoof, and heart.

A unique poetic exercise

Originally begun as letters to a colleague, Albert Flynn DeSilver's writing began to transform into a whimsical epistolary experiment that turned writing a traditional letter into a unique poetic exercise addressing emotions, elements of landscape, and the act of writing itself. The poems compiled and presented in "Letters To Early Street" represent fresh, lyrical and inventively articulate acts of communication. "Letters To Early Street" is emotionally rewarding, intellectually entertaining, and very highly recommended reading for anyone who appreciates the art and craft of writing poetry. 'Letter Forty Three': Dear equivalence,//I can feel a letter/welling up from that massive//fathom at the cusp/of what breath borders//upon hesitant/heights, here//where my absences/are all up to spec.//Soon this letter will shed its dilemma,/like an exasperated lemon-cloud--//Then the diehard physicalists/will have to absorb//the difficulty of such spendy/ephemera. How I enter//endless confrontation with no/emblem but skin.

fresh paint

The author helps me feel that all that I read is happening for the first time. So fresh and alive. I titled my minute of expression fresh paint for when I read letter after letter it feels as free to me as fresh paint. I love that feeling when you paint a new color and for that sweet moment it's all fresh and free. Letters to Early Street gives me that same feeling. Very much in the moment. Bravo DeSilver