White Spaces: Selected Poems and Early Prose [Paperback]

Magnificent poetry; dark, severe, even harshyet pulsating withlife. John AshberyFrom the spook of Spokes and the parabolic philosophicalchiaroscuro of White Spaces to the gnomic sighs of whats in between, PaulAusters poems shimmer at the edges with audacious grace and uncannysoulfulness.Anyone interested in the origins of Paul Austers art, itsground, will find these intense early sequences, these liminal austerities, ofgreat interest. Austers is a poetry of extreme lyric condensation.