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David C. Kopaska-Merkel:
UNDERFOOT


Runaway Spoon Press
Box 3621
Port Charlotte FL, 33949


$3.00

Intro. by G. Huth; illus. by Sheila Kopaska-Merkel. Many of these poems arise from the world of speculative and fantasy poetry, but avoid the excesses of much of the work in that genre. The best of Kopaska-Merkel's work in that vein shows a concision that pulls toward the other pole of this book, a kind of minimalist expression that betrays an interest in language as a means of expressing the inexpressible: "wrong side of the/ white sky surf/ knife edge over mountains."--John M. Bennett


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This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #2,
Copyright Burning Press 1993, 1995.

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