A Book of Shadows

 A BOOK OF SHADOWS

Author:

Elliott, William I. & Saitoh, Alan Botsford

Cover:

PAPERBACK

Pub Date:

01 Jan 2005

Publisher:

SARU

ISBN:

978-0-942668-63-6

Price:

$10.00

Description:

 Poetry. Distinguished poet-translator William I. Elliott and his colleague at Kanto Gakuin University, Alan Botsford Saitoh, both residents of Japan, team up to create this scintillating and diverse collection of reflections on modern life. Elliottis the longtime coeditor of Poetry Kanto, a bilingual journal published in Japan, and a cowinner of the American Book Award. Botsford was a 2001 Pushcart Prize nominee. A sample: "the world doesn't ask/to be bookmarked, it asks/to be read,/admitting what is there/where horizontal & vertical/meet the depths/ on the surfaces of things,/the reality of appearances/saved (don't worry, not lost)/by you who/are choking back/the lion's logo, swallowing/instead/a lion's share/ of your shadow"

KATYDID BOOKS, Santa Fe, New Mexico: 2003
ISBN 0-942668-63-4

co-authors:
William I. Elliott
Alan Botsford


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"[A Book of Shadows is]...a wholly new way of intermingling poems by two poets, beckoning [us] to read them every which way, with mind and heart, in light and shadow, mamaist and papaist, abstract and concrete, on and on."

- Morgan Gibson, poet, critic