Description
Poetry. Fiction. "For close to 20 years I've been reading in manuscript and in small published batches Michael Franco's ongoing field of activity: A BOOK OF MEASURE. How wonderful to have VOLUME ONE in print for a larger reading public. This long evocative and provocative poem in prose is a unique work, a verbal collage in the manner of Jess in which perceived and imagined realities meld to create a whole that is more than the sum of its individual parts. Franco's unique kaleidoscopic achievement is about Mind, interlacing en-trances and exits, moving landscapes in both time and space, and above all about the very act of reading and writing, or in the words of Rilke, 'Everything is gestation, then bringing forth.'"—Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
Author Bio
Michael Franco is a poet, playwright and artist. He has been contributing editor for lift magazine, and a member of the poetry panel for AGNI magazine. For ten years he directed the Word of Mouth Reading Series in Cambridge, MA. In the fall of 2016 he inaugurated a new series, Xit the Bear in the Press Room at Oxford Street, which you can check out on Facebook and Youtube. His previous publications include: The Library Of Dr Dee (dromenon press for Pressed Wafer, 2006), How To Live (Zoland, 1998), The Journals of the Man Who Kept Bees (lift books, 1996), and others. He lives and works in Somerville, MA with his wife Isabel and son Thomas.
Author City: USA