| News on Skis | ||
| by Peter Ganick | ||
| 64 pages | ISBN 0-939691-07-8 | $8.00 |
News on Skis investigates the ways in which the shape of language curves
to meet the meaning it contrives to suggest the reader will find there. These
three serial poems by the publisher of Potes & Poets Press -- "you pool
theatre," "untitled [Web]" and "epilogue" -- make active the space of the page
upon which words interact visually (typographically) as well as phonetically,
rhythmically, substantively, etc. So the sections of a poem like "untitled
(Web)" present what amounts to an array of two dimentional crystals (quartz?
topaz? salt?), edges as margin finds its way "to remove anywhere need/ top to
bottom" in the insistence we give to the surface (and beyond) of what we read.
Taking up where the motion of language least expected us to find it, News on
Skis points the way to a world just ahead of where we thought we were
going:
return to Avenue B
will
topaz
crisis
evaders
demand a
paltry if
demand rot
on pylon me
to blame art
that curio red
and sick foment
a place impacted
toot on hard wood
espionages those to
brie and wanderlusts
how haven formica hat
on the coven no spaces
to remove anywhere need
top to bottom a harp one