Poetry. Through old news, the ocean's drone, or a corner shrub in bloom, one learns "How to untwine/noise, to see" in Joseph Massey's EXIT NORTH. Here, the strange clarity of landscapes gives way to Massey's unwavering attention to sound—"a kind of metronome" that keeps time in its place. Even when "There's little/to say," there's evidence of song to be found.

Author City: ARCATA, CA USA

Joseph Massey is the author of AREAS OF FOG (Shearsman Books, 2009) and AT THE POINT (Shearsman Books, 2011), as well as ten chapbooks: Minima St. (Range, 2002), Eureka Slough (Effing Press, 2005), Bramble (Hot Whiskey Press, 2005), Property Line (Fewer & Further Press, 2006), November Graph (Longhouse, 2007), Within Hours (The Fault Line Press, 2008), Out of Light (Kitchen Press, 2008), The Lack Of (Nasturtium Press, 2009), EXIT NORTH (BookThug, 2010), and Mock Orange (Longhouse, 2010). His work has appeared in various journals and magazines, including The Nation, Western Humanities Review, Quarterly West, Asterisk, Verse, A Public Space, Tight, Carve, Northwest Review, and American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, among many others.

Reviews and Other Links
Pearl Pirie in Pesbo Poetry Journal
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