Material Matters

by Tom Holmes

Tom Holmes is an impresario of dreams. His images form a compendium at the same time personal and archetypal, incidental and enduring. Pablo Neruda's dictum, "We are many" is richly borne out in these virtuoso poems, where "Somewhere in the deepest library, / a copyist begins retranslating / the last straight inch of history"; where "all treasure maps / are stolen, memorized, and eaten." What remains, this book proves, is poetry in its spontaneity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952326346
• ISBN13: 9781952326349
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Kelsay Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"