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For Kid Rock/Total Freedom: Michael Scharf

The Imperfect: Regan Good

The Good House: Rod Smith

The Beginner: Lyn Hejinian

Seamless Antilandscape: Leslie Scalapino

Spiderwasp or Literary Criticism: Juliana Spahr

The Garden. A Theophany or Eccohome: A Dialectical Lyric: Martin Corless-Smith

Songs & Scores: Tina Celona

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The Garden. A Theophany or Eccohome A Dialectical Lyric

Martin Corless-Smith
1998

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Martin Corless-Smith's The Garden. A Theophany or Eccohome A Dialectical Lyric is a mask in 13 titled sections, some of the first dozen titles bearing repetitions of "Garden," "Death," and "Ecco Home," and a final section titled "Return to the Garden : ECCO HOME." The book fits squarely in the palm of one hand, a breviary of verse to earth and sky, past and future. Since this is a choral groundwork, "a field / meaning flowers," and a "rupturing of a habitual dwelling into a surprise," The Garden encircles matrices of wonder -- implementing near-homophones and neologisms to recoup antiquarian ceremony...

—Jack Kimball, Jacket Magazine

As in Of Piscator (1997), Corless-Smith's last book, these poems are most remarkable for their rich and knotty diction--perhaps derived from Shakespeare--joined with a tendency towards abstraction. The result could be described as Bunting and Zukofsky in equal measure.

—Geoffrey Treacle, The Chicago Review