The Materialist

By Rick London

Poetry. New work by an often visceral and always attentive poet that unfolds, in the three serial poems that make up this book, London's lyrical meditations on the evanescence at the heart of everyday life. "THE MATERIALIST, as poet Rick London does it, is a 'lonesome dog' with all senses on alert, spinning the clarities of 'intimate causes' around the sweet spot between coming and going. A love song to the world itself, when the illusory line that separates inner and outer (or life and death) dissolves: in 'light/you can rest in'"--Sarah Menefee. "London's work cuts through the grease and lets in splinters and shards of light"--David Meltzer. Other Rick London titles available from SPD include PICTURE WITH MOVING PARTS, ABJECTIONS: A SUITE, and DREAMING CLOSE BY.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884118224
• ISBN13: 9781884118227
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Doorjamb Press
• Length: 80 Pages