Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Out from Otoliths—Kevin Opstedal's Drainpipe Sessions


Drainpipe Sessions
Kevin Opstedal
44 pages
Otoliths, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9808785-4-7
$10.00 + p&h
URL: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/drainpipe-sessions/15978079

Beneath the relentless surf ghetto aura that pervades these Drainpipe Sessions there is a place where nothing is revealed, acknowledged by the grace of having been there at all. It’s the catch & release method of poetic composition, the B-side of a once and future flashback, stubbornly adhering to a lyric drive where the measure is meant to be taken in a single breath. “If poetry is the Atlantis of the arts,” writes Noel Black, “then Kevin Opstedal can breathe under water, and each poem is a pair of shades for a beach blanket apocalypse.”

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