Wednesday, January 27, 2021

NEW BOOK! ~ HOLY GHOST (BOB ARNOLD) ~

 




"Very happy evenings to sit by the fire and read through Holy Ghost. You have been at this particular work of poetry, documenting in unswervingly clean verse, the life around you, that you have built with Susan, for so long. A book like this is doubly enjoyable. One for the clarity and ethos of its poems, unlike anyone else’s these days. And like an intimate extended letter from a long time friend. You may be the only poet I can think of who does something I like to do in poems: show that we live among books. How many volumes of poetry do you read in which no matter what items of life show up, it is as though the poet is shy or even ashamed to depict him or herself as a steady, serious reader? You’ve got gift for portraits of people, mostly the locals of course, and in a Niedecker offhand way you manage to get their vernacular speech into a poem, as well as your own."

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Andrew Schelling


~

Bob Arnold

Holy Ghost

Longhouse 2021


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Witness


was the one with you—

whether you knew it

or not

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Bob Arnold

212 pages

perfect-bound

$20 

$3.95 shipping

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