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    612-822-4611

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Bay leaves

Bay leaves

Schreiber, Jan

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1949229750
ISBN13: 9781949229752
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Aug 31 2019
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Bay Leaves, Jan Schreiber's slim yet impressive new volume of poems, shows us a world alive with animal energy and enlivening beauty, defying Wallace Stevens - The hawk will never think / that hawk and branch are one - and imagining Heisenberg's ode to his own uncer¬tainty - Surely the race is over, but who won? Schreiber's acute observations of the natural world stand in effort¬lessly for our own deepest spiritual lives, just as his dramatic monologues fluently conduct wisdom gained from human suffer¬ing. These superbly crafted poems pulse with intellectual vitality, as we picture phantoms of birds balance on branches in / the labyrinthine circuits of the brain. Bay Leaves is a pure delight.

- Ernest Hilbert, author of Last One OutJan Schreiber's Bay Leaves is uncommon, and uncommonly fine, in several ways. The voice is admirably measured in a time of verbal pyrotechnics, yet the writing is amply studded with mem¬ora¬ble strokes of diction and imagery. The surfaces in these poems are unusually trans¬parent, the better to reveal considerable, sometimes mysterious depths. Schreiber's view of life is fundamentally tragic, but stoically so, and leaves ample room for humor including of the laugh-out-loud variety beauty, and love. And all of these virtues are delivered in formal verse of impec¬cable craft. Bay Leaves is both distinct and of distinction: a book whose modest compass affords more than enough room to move, intrigue, and tickle by turns.

- Daniel Brown, author of What More?

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