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Originally published by O Books in association with Trike Press
Dreaming Close By is a text in which writing as observation is frequently the action of tracing movements in locations. These rapidly accumulated perceptions, rendered through precise and abrupt uses of language, make of self and world a luminous surface.
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the body forms • a
blood become color •
in a passing •
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figure, track of air,
says and
nothing shreds
of color says
and flesh under*since our bodies & ocean
held holding open some trees
swell defined to relief
open & body press open held
rising
would cut a mouth*
— from Dreaming Close By
Rick London
Rick London was born in Detroit in 1948. He moved to San Francisco in 1974, where he continues to live and work. He is the author of the poetry collections The Materialist (Doorjamb Press, ... Read More
