Poetry. "Sobin's poetry grants us a clarity of vision but most of all it grants the capacity for silence and for hearing in silent stillness the infinite possibility of generation and renewal"--Robert Baker, American Book Review. "Sobin's work enacts vocal gestures that take their bearing from the breath itself, intuiting their way, as `air rushing through air,' back to some originary grammar, long since fragmented almost past recognition"--Andrew Zawacki, Boston Review of Books. "Sobin has always been a supreme poetic stylist. His rhythms contain remarkable subtlety, and his use of the syllable as the basic unit of sound may be more precise than any contemporary poet"--Mark Wallace, Verse.

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Gustaf Sobin (1935-2005) was born in Boston but lived most of his life in the Provence region of France. Among his many books are AURA: LAST ESSAYS (Counterpath Press, 2008), THE PLACES AS PRELUDES (Talisman House, 2005) and BY THE BIAS OF SOUND: SELECTED POEMS, 1974-1994 (Talisman House, 2005).