Poetry. Photography. Like Dr. Faustus, like Don Giovanni, like Alice, Pinocchio is one of the mythic avatars of the modern mind, a scapegrace forever escaping retribution by the skin of his teeth. This unusual collaboration between poet Edwin Frank and photographer George Woodman finds Pinocchio caught in a series of unexpected, and yet familiar, entanglements, at once comic and miserable. The tricky relations between lover and beloved, theory and practice, fantasy and reality are among the matters that might be said to come up in this beautiful sequence of words and images, which offers both an exploration of photography's narrative unconscious and a prosody of the perverse. "George Woodman's provocative photographs lie at the intersection of nature and culture. These densely layered images recall the mythological, and refer to the art historical, but above all, exist in the personal present." --Adam Weinberg, Whitney Museum of American Art

The Further Adventures of Pinocchio

Literature & Fiction

Frank, Edwin

Woodman, George

Poetry

ALEF Books

BRAND NEW softcover, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201601881 First books of poetry are sometimes marked by hesitancy and indirection; this one is not. Instead, Lease introduces a curiously powerful voice and establishes a singular style in work that ranges from stark syllabic poems reminiscent of the Black Mountain school, to others rich in surrealistic images, to discursive prose poems. Lease wields primal images to mirror a desolate subjective world: ``The lead sun. / Snow falling straight down / On graphite-colored water, / Yellow slick leaves, concrete.'' The evocative title poem, about the impending loss of a relationship, juxtaposes casual--even confessional--prose poems, formal quatrains, single-line stanzas, and images such as ``I have eight legs and an exoskeleton, / my eyes are livid taupe, and in each mandible I hold a tiny, scream / ing baby.'' Other prose poems capture the momentary blur between natural world and inner perception, as when ``my hands breathe new tightening inside the branch.'' Lease's voice weakens only when the sensual images become predictable--``I breathe like an oak tree / I taste your sweating skin''--or when overloaded images are more precious than precise. But Lease more often rewards readers by allowing them a memorable glimpse into the painful yet intelligible realm of loss and poetry itself. We recommend selecting Priority Mail wherever available. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.) 3

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