Plain Talk Rising: poems

by Mark Dow

Mark Dow's Plain Talk Rising opens when a boy opens his eyes to his mother's already-inescapable presence. It ends with the possibility of endlessness when the mother touches her own pregnant belly and "for the first time he knows she knows he is there."

David Rosenberg (author of A Literary Bible and co-author with Harold Bloom of The Book of J) writes that Plain Talk Rising "transmutes poetry into prose, and then back again, like an alchemist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692107967
• ISBN13: 9780692107966
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: PTR (New York)
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"