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Catalogue #: 001
ISBN: 1-885942-00-1 paper $9.95
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Description
In his long-awaited third collection, Northwest poet Sean
Bentley wrestles with the "big things": love, death, birth, war.
Quotes
“Lively, soulful, conscienceful poems . . . strong and sturdy .
. .”
- Albert Goldbarth
"Bentley's poems are played out in a theater
where family, joyous and sad, moves onstage before the grim backdrop of geopolitics and
military technology."
- John W. Marshall
"Bentley is daring, beautifully eloquent and intelligent, a superb image-maker."
- Leslie Norris
"Poise and clarity . . . great delicacy."
- Floyd Skloot
Author's Bio
Sean Bentley was born and currently lives in the Seattle area
where he serves as a founding editor of the poetry magazine Fine Madness and works as a
senior technical editor at Microsoft Corporation. His work has appeared widely over the
last twenty years. His two previous books are Into the Bright Oasis (1976) and Instances
(1979).
Publisher's
Note
A profile of Sean Bentley (taken from An Ear to the Ground):
When I first met Sean Bentley in September 1979, he went by the alias of Lenny E. Beast.
We were in Parrington 223b on the University of Washington campus where his father had
held poetry workshops for nearly two decades. Beast, wearing his Captain America T-shirt,
read "The Man with Meadows in Both Halves of Him, Living with It," written
during a recent cross-country trip.
Since then Sean has turned me on to writers Albert Goldbarth, Colin Wilson, and H.P.
Lovecraft; and I have turned him on to Glenlivet, Oban, Cragganmore, and other such golden
elixirs from the highlands and lowlands of Scotland. I'm not sure who got the better deal,
but they definitely go together.
Two instances stand out of life imitating art: on a journey we took to the Oregon coast
during a powerful wind storm, Sean buried himself in a giant pile of seafoam; and one
night in the Canadian Rockies, near the Athabascan glacier north of Banff, he took a
burning stick from our fire and traced Picassoesque images against the frigid dark which
hung glowing green in the air longer than we thought possible.
It is this spontaneous joy and beauty that make Sean's writing so compelling. His latest
book, Grace & Desolation, pulls together the last six years of his life, which
have seen the death of his father and the birth of his son.
- Herb Payton
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“Lively, soulful, conscienceful poems . . .
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