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Spirit Spout

Spirit Spout

Balwit, Devon

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1949279456
ISBN13: 9781949279450
Publisher: Nixes Mate Books
Published: Feb 15 2023
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.18 Width: 7.38 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Devon Balwit's Spirit Spout - a poetic vision directly engaging with Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale - is an eschatological tour de force. The poet practices an intertextual jouissance showcasing singular gifts for sound and image. We encounter the thrown gauntlet // the poking prod of the devil's own advocate; there is salt, wind, brine and ocean; Melville as god, as demon; Melville in the throes of creation and also grieving. Ishmael, Ahab, and Queequeg beckon. Both travelogue and existential reckoning with life, there is a painterly attention to the physical, to the body; there is a grappling with sociology and philosophy: Our thinking // always butting up against the ribs / of the paradigms we travel in. Balwit's powers are on full display - this book's spirit is deep and wide. - Charles Kell, author of Ishmael Mask

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