Lamp of Whispers - New & Selected Prosepoems

Already Long Ago is a fine work by a master poet who has dedicated his lifeto delving into the alchemy of poetry. -Stuart Bartow, author of Green Midnight and Invisible Dictionary Today's subject is Already Long Ago, Giannini's latest book, the poems of which he ""selected from a year's worth of work [including] lyric and narrative poems, songs, prose poems, hybrid haibun, and short and long-lined haiku.""-J.R. Solonche is the author of twenty-six books of poetry and co-author of another. Poetry, according to David Giannini, provides ""an infinite / number of doors."" Poem by poem in The Dawn of Nothing Important, we pass through many such doors, each opening into a room where a poem happens around us-a measured, intoxicating music and waves of colored lights. -Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate (2014-2019), author of Under Sleep's New Moon and The World As Is: New and Selected Poems On In a Moment We May Be Strangely Blended poems by David Giannini: From the first poem on, the reader is aware of David Giannini's love of language: its music, sound and rhythms, its humorous possibilities, its ability to express the self interacting with the life presented to one, and how experience is conveyed, whether in recalling childhood memories or interactions with others. For Giannini, language is the medium of meaning and of locating meaning in historical oddities, in relationships, and even in his backyard wood pile. This book carries a world of weight that a reader will bear with joy.-Gary Metras 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. -Irene J. Willis, Editor of the anthology Sigmund Freud in Poetry and Poetry Editor of International Psychoanalysis David Giannini's Faces Somewhere Wild spans his 45 years living and laboring in the Berkshire hill-towns of Massachusetts. Like the farmer whose face resembles what's fixed and moves around him, he is an astute observer of other faces. The man-with-the-broom who walks the streets making sweeping gestures reminds the poet, We are becoming motes or star dust. -Paul Pines David Giannini's ""Span of Thread,"" which is a polyphonic, serio-playful, deep-structured celebration of life-in-language and language-in-life. This book is further proof that Giannini is among those who are saving American poetry from itself. -Joseph Hutchison, Former Poet Laureate of Colorado