Downstate Peter Robinson

Downstate Peter RobinsonThe poems in Downstate recount journeys from David Gardiner's native Chicago and Polish neighborhoods of his childhood, to the Southern territories of his distant American past, to the contemporary Ireland where he has lived over the past twenty years. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: "The truth is, that, every half century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors. Human blood, in

but also many lesser known voices

The Wow Signal (2007)

translated by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

— John Lucas

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Johnny Griffin and Art Blakey

Ori Bernstein

as when the shadow of the dying day ‘creases the backs of hills’

as if his look brought the handles back to the doors

Joachim Ringelnatz

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