Poetry. This major work of poetry, written with a form and texture reminiscent of musical score, takes its inspiration form Gertrude Stein's lectures on art and writing. "You can read them like pieces of sheet music, and though they appear to be simply painterly, they are ordered like abstract, mathematical notations. You hear what you want to see, and no one is there"—Fanny Howe. "This book stuns me every time I go back to it—it's so quiet, so calm, yet it accumulates into a tremendous presence based entirely in the senses"—Cole Swensen.

Author City: BOLINAS, CA USA

Stephen Ratcliffe's more than twenty books of poetry include NEW YORK NOTES (1983), DISTANCE (1986), [WHERE LATE THE SWEET] BIRDS SANG (1989), SOUND/(SYSTEM) (2002), PORTRAITS & REPETITION (2002), REAL (2007), CONVERSATION (2011), and CLOUD / RIDGE (2011). He is also the author of three books of literary criticism: Campion: On Song (1981), LISTENING TO READING (2000), and READING THE UNSEEN: (OFFSTAGE) HAMLET (2009). He lives in Bolinas, California, and teaches at Mills College in Oakland.

Reviews and Other Links
J. D. Mitchell @ Cricket Online Review