Atria: Poems [Hardcover]

As seen in The gap between what we say and what we mean is an interstice in which Waldmans work carefully (and caringly) resides . . . What makes The most quietly radical accomplishment of the collection: an ekphrastic mode that doesnt confine itself to storied works of art adorning museum walls. D.S. Waldman explores the architectures of dream and poem with the eye of a Cubist: constructing a poetry that moves between theory and reverie, between textured music and frank retelling. Here, we enter a space of slippages and disguises as Waldman meditates on the preservations and annihilations of art and life, their mark making and their erasures. Waldman is both artist and subject, both meaning and pattern, where sometimes the smudge is revealed to be not paint, but turpentine. Thoughtful, meditative, lyrical. Highly original. An understated, exquisite work of intellect and lucid attention, a minor geography made of language, suggestion, and absence. With