Poetry. "Between what's perceived and how one adds meaning spells a moment of infinite duration, an admixture of sense and thinking, of mirror-clear images and impressionistic language. A MESSAGE BACK reads like an infinity sign, an unending process of journey and return, specific identity and underlying oneness, the poetry of open thinking in a time of war. With provocative borrowings and stinging insights, Leonard Schwartz transcribes an unforgettable conversation"—Thalia Field.

Author Hometown: OLYMPIA, WA USA



About the author: Leonard Schwartz is the author of numerous books of poetry including, most recently, AT ELEMENT (Talisman House, Publishers, 2011), A MESSAGE BACK AND OTHER FURORS (Chax Press, 20008), The Library of Seven Readings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007), LANGUAGE AS RESPONSIBILITY (Tinfish Press, 2006), EAR AND ETHOS (Talisman House, Publishers, 2005), THE TOWER OF DIVERSE SHORES (Talisman House, Publishers, 2003), and WORDS BEFORE THE ARTICULATE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (Talisman House, Publishers, 1997). In addition he is the author of A Flicker at the Edge of Things: Essays Towards a Poetics (Spuyten Duyvil, 1998). He hosts and produces the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics and teaches at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

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