la M al by John M. Bennett

2nd Edition Revised 2015

A Co-Edition with Luna Bisonte Prods, USA & gradient books, Finland

$15 US

ISBN 9781938521201

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From the opening poem, “...mumbling in the/attic “roof” out there, mud beyond my head...”, this revised and definitive 2^nd edition of John M. Bennett's classic  la M al confirms its position as one of the poet's best works. Bennett has created a unique language to express the depth and complexity (or the complexity has created the language), of thought and emotion, or emotional thought that are the core of human experience:

...“drain”

a laundry think .but think re diction think a congeries

of faucets faucets like yr “running-sore” a window to a

moon .“a moon all” right a tab le o yr “lips were draped...

The language swarms, swells and ebbs, shatters and recoheres, turns and returns, in patterns that resonate with all the currents, hidden and visible, of the self or selves that inhabit us. An essential book that fully realizes the possibilities of language to contain and know what is.