Description
An exceptionally compatible marriage lasts for several years and then inexplicably and without warning seems to fall apart. Stephen Bett narrates his own journey of stunned and bewildering pain as the language of poem after poem in this “serial” book of poems shows increasing rupture and fragmentation. Stephen Bett, one of the more recognised of the “minimalist” poets writing in English today, traces the breaking of heart and language in this stunning book of poems. Language at its most naked and vulnerable.
About the author
Stephen Bett's writing and college teaching life has been informed by the "counter tradition " of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the New York School (1st and 2nd generations), and how that played out in Canada with the TISH poets, and beyond. His more recent books are "minimalist " in form, often stretching into "serial poems (book-length "linked poems"). This allows for the surprise of echoing back and forth — everything from idea to image to cadence. Bett's work, like its creator, is recognized as funny, satirical and unique. He lives in Vancouver. Previous books include: Re-positioning , Track This: A Book of Relationship, Extreme Positions, Sass 'n Pass, Three Women, Nota Bene Poems: A Journey, and High-Maintenance.
