Robert Desnos Finds His Sleep Medicines Beneath Bachelard's Floorboards

by George Kalamaras

"How simple and strange everything is," to quote Robert Desnos, one of two epigraphs beginning this collection. It could serve as a distillation of Kalamaras's aesthetic. There's always a feeling of devotion moving through his lines, though I wouldn't call it piety. It's a quality of attention, the kind one would associate with a Zen tea ceremony, or Zen poet Takahashi Shinkichi. It's a reverence of the marvelous, and everything in Kalamaras's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952335817
• ISBN13: 9781952335815
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Madhat, Inc.
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"