"As his "mewling gato with a dewy nose," Manson tips us to the vulnerable flesh of our worlds as much as to the conversational implicature of our words. In this "music of the fires and the chutes," we hear Hart Crane throttled to the "bubble-fluff concentration" of a tone, whose source is unique, whose interior integrity broadcasts news to all. Listen when this "bird of rooftops" changes tune, and hear an urgent song, for ears, for heart, for shelter. Jonathan Skinner Out of a variety of sonic materials-echoes, "clackings," puns, "lashings," poundings, "drillings," rhymes and cacophonies-Douglas Manson builds an unhinged house, the necessary product of a "post-Cold-War war" world. If, as Heidegger tells us, "Language is the house of Being" and "Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home," then Manson is both builder and guardian. But he does not stay comfortably at home. Roofing and Siding hunkers down for the winter and it goes on pilgrimage. It sings and scoffs at the same time. Fascinating and frightening to inhabit: there is a jungle in this house. Sasha Steensen i've arrived at a blurb. i'm not exactly a hundred percent satisfied. it's really short, and while it does justice to the scope of the project, the shifting identities, the wide soundscapes, it does not attest to the attention to detail, the microscoping. as in the first poem, "Chaff," the view is wide from faraway, but up close it shrinks and shrinks. my blurb doesn't address the shrink, the elusive interior: Sidereal high, a real wide worldview. Matthew Klane "
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