Antonio & Clara

Giannini, David

Adastra Pr

Poetry, art. Edition not noted. Inscription signed by the illustrator on the half title page. Book and jacket near fine and clean, inside and out.

Rim: Woodcuts

Feldman, Franklin

Arts & Photography

Indian Mountain Pr

Poetry. SIDE-WAYS is a collection of prose poems, the title of which is taken from the first poem, "Crab," a creature who lives by the necessity that one must "move at one's own angle or die in its pursuit!" Giannini is the author of ANTONIO AND CLARA and OTHER LINES, a collection of "collage haikus."

Side-Ways

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Quale Press

Poetry. David Giannini's recent collections of poetry include SIDE-WAYS, How Else? and Low-Tide Cards. AZ TWO is intended to be read as one work. He continues to believe that there is a sense of all things more real than things, and that poetry embodies the clearest carving of that sense. He lives in Becket, Massachusetts.

Az Two: Words of Travel

Adastra Press

Poetry. "I have been an admirer of David Giannini's work since I first heard him read Antonio and Clara, a moving tribute to his grandparents. While that book invites comparisons, as most good poetry does, THE FUTURE ONLY RATTLES WHEN YOU PICK IT UP is one of a kind. There is nothing like it, and no one's voice or thought is like his. Witty, wise and wonderful, some of these poems are downright hilarious. I won't say which, because it's more fun if you discover them for yourselves. Every once in a while, though, he looks out at us from the page and tells us a bold truth straight on, without humor but with infinite understanding of himself and his place in the world. It isn't until halfway through that we learn where the clever title comes from. I won't spoil it by telling you, except that it's a romantic surprise. My other favorites: 'Maysong Other,' Parts 1 and 2, 'B.A.D.,' 'Betsy' and the suite of poems for his wife, Pam--especially the 7th, where he says, ... 'we are present to each other the way our talk is the way our talking is a form a form of being of being present of feeling our talk inlaid inlaid with silence ...'. The spaces are deliberate, as they are on his page. Anyone picking up this book, whether it rattles or not, is in for an absorbing, delightful and insightful read."--Irene J. Willis, PhD

The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It Up

Dos Madres Press

Poetry. "David Giannini's poems are as intricate as a hall of receding mirrors. Readers enter into these elemental, historical, and phenomenological poems only to find themselves indeed strangely blended, on an unexpected ride that skirts closely to revelation. Their extravagant playfulness--carried by rhymes, half-rhymes, inversions, and puns--takes us through logical conundrums, fables, and myths only to collide with a self relentlessly looking outwards and inwards. One never is sure if it's the reader, the poet, or the work that is 'scrambling up to grab you, not / by the throat, by the butt of a joke.' Interspersed amongst the humor and complexity--and for that reason all the more powerful--are poems that harness a striking spareness in response to contemporary landscapes of harshness, brutality, displacement, and grief."--Janet MacFadyen

In A Moment We May Be Strangely Blended

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Poetry. "There is a singular pleasure in very short poems. David Giannini's reach in many directions: sharp observation, laughter, love, grief, irony, bitterness, wonderment. Reading these poems I kept wondering if there are some themes so wide that only a very short poem can handle them.You want a poem on love? How about death? Maybe the weather, autumn leaves, an owl, a coyote, chestnuts, a breakfast spoon, a parent's casket? Poems like these fit snugly into the real world. At the same time, they are sinewy objects that concentrate all of the poet's 'powers.' I guess that means this book is a medicine bundle."--Andrew Schelling

Mayhap

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