Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems & Writings 1989 & 1999-2006

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Recognized internationally as one of the most original poets writing today, Leslie Scalapino has developed a devoted following. This massive collection explores her continued fascination with time and being, collecting various works from the past several years.Poetry. DAY OCEAN STATE OF STARS\' NIGHT, a collection of eight years of Leslie Scalapino\'s poetry, represents one of the most important of her works to date. Alice Notley commented on the long poem, \"It\'s go in/quiet illumined grass/land\": \"An enlightened work singing of death, physical pain, social fearfulness, and where when or whether one is. The intricate variable stanza, almost danced (like a Greek strophe) sounds one of Scalapino\'s favorite themes: inside and outside, the cruelty outside and the illumination also there, as in here, in space and in time. The stanza leads one through the space and time of the poem word by word. You can\'t stop.\" Robert Crelley has written about Leslie Scalapino\'s writing: \"I hesititate to introduce any such term as \'meditation\' or \'reflection\' because this work is not apart from its thinking and/or composition, so to speak, and that, among other things, constitutes its exceptional value. I find the whole work to be a deeply engaging preoccupation with, and articulation of, what life might be said, factually, to be. But not as a defined subject, nor even a defining one- but as one being one. That is an heroic undertaking, or rather, place in which to work/write/live. Its formal authority is as brilliant as any I know.\"