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Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop:
LIGHT TRAVELS

Burning Deck
71 Elmgrove Avenue
Providence RI, 02906


$5.00

LIGHT TRAVELS is a collaborative poem of fifteen parts in a beautifully produced letterpress edition.

Repetition is used section-to-section as propellant and as framing device, in aid of reflection, underscoring the dialogic nature of this project--as in repeating what another has said to be sure one has heard correctly. Here, by way of example, are sections four and five:

4.   close the curtains but
     playful elaborations of otherwise
     arrogant variation keeping
     the window open

     as it's wrong to shut
     one's eyes to dream
     it's raining while it is in fact raining

5.   as it's wrong to shut
     one's eyes to dream it's
     raining while it is in fact raining

     ears busied with hearing more than
     one voice the stream our tears unmirror

Throughout the poem alludes to its own creation. It alludes, too, in a fractured way to its Outside. It is always well sounded, always particular.

I treasure this book not least because I prefer duets to solos. Together you can get to places you cannot go alone.--Tom Beckett

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

Contact the editor, luigi-bob drake, at Burning Press