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Lamp of Whispers - New & Selected Prosepoems

Lamp of Whispers - New & Selected Prosepoems - Paperback

by David Giannini
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Availability:In StockContributor:David GianniniPublish date:4/15/2026Pages:238
Languages:EnglishPublisher:DOS Madres PressISBN-13:9781962847490ISBN-10:1962847497UPC:9781962847490Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:PlacesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 inchesWeight:0.322Product ID:SCZHTRGV1R

The prosepoems (as I spell that) in Lamp of Whispers are selections from eight of my books of poetry-and-prose published 2015 through 2023, and including 40 new prosepoems (plus one older "assay" to start the first section.) I conceived them mainly as vertical pieces, many of them taller than they are wide. My intent is to bring any reader's eyes and ears back to the words more quickly than occurs in reading most prose. It is hoped that a reader will then be more attentive to sonic and textural properties within each piece, a sense of poetry so intimate with prose that I call it prosepoetry. The pieces are often nonlinear and work by associative and sometimes also symbolic interactions.

There is no formal compositional tradition in writing prosepoetry. All prosepoems are an approach, not a poetic "form" (beyond their container shapes, mostly rectangles, on a page.) Or put it this way: form occurs as you are reading, as an approach is made to that mountain peak, poetry itself. The peak's in the path up.

-David Giannini

Languages:EnglishPublisher:DOS Madres PressISBN-13:9781962847490ISBN-10:1962847497UPC:9781962847490Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:PlacesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 inchesWeight:0.322Product ID:SCZHTRGV1R
Giannini, David: - David Giannini's most recently published collections of poetry include Faces Somewhere Wild (2017), The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It Up (2018), In A Moment We may Be Strangely Blended (2019), Mayhap (2019), The Dawn of Nothing Important (2023), Stones are the First to Rise (2024), each published by Dos Madres Press; POROUS BORDERS published by Spuyten Duyvil Press in 2017; SPAN OF THREAD (Cervena Barva Press, 2015) and AZ TWO (Adastra Press, ) a "Featured Book" in the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival. His work appears in national and international literary magazines and anthologies, including New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015. New Feral Press published15 of his chapbooks between 2011-18 including TRAVELING CLUSTER, and INVERSE MIRROR, a collaboration with artist, Judith Koppel;. His work appears in national and international literary magazines and anthologies. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015. Awards include: Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Awards; The Osa and Lee Mays Award For Poetry; an award for prosepoetry from the University of Florida; and a 2009 Finalist Award from the Naugatuck Review. He has been a gravedigger; beekeeper; taught at Williams College, The University of Massachusetts, and Berkshire Community College, as well as preschoolers and high school students, among others. Giannini was the Lead Rehabilitation Counselor for Compass Center, which he co-founded as the first rehabilitation clubhouse for severely and chronically mentally ill adults in the northwest corner of Connecticut. www.davidgiannini.com
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