From Away - by Eli Goldblatt (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

From Away is filled with spaces where memory fades into forgetfulness, where inattention opens into startling recollection. Writing out of the pandemic, Goldblatt registers desolation realistically and surrealistically, in dreams forgotten at their margins, and yet turns the desolate toward renewal, as " catalpa front, . . . raccoon scat & mushroom waste embroider the / path I'm on."

Review Quotes

Eli Goldblatt walks and when he walks he observes closely, as Thoreau did, the details and the auras. Trees and birds, streams, fences, flowers, weeds, the world is moving (in both senses) and Goldblatt moves with it, feelingly. If you value poetry as a record of the profound sense of what it is to be humanly in the world, with all its contradictions and urgencies, you will cherish the companionship of From Away, each line loaded with bits and pieces of realized living.

--Norman Fischer, poet, essayist, Zen Buddhist priest and teacher, author of Selected Poems 1980-2013

Eli Goldblatt's From Away remains as poetry, never converted to form accorded to the scholarly realm, or to the nascent realm of the first maturing mind. Here is the poetic mind that suspends itself in vapour.

--Will Alexander, poet, artist, musician, author of Divine Blue Light, The Combustion Cycle, and Texas Blind Salamander

Feelings From Away is filled with spaces where memory fades into forgetfulness, where inattention opens into startling recollection. Writing out of the pandemic, Goldblatt registers desolation realistically and surrealistically, in dreams forgotten at their margins, and yet turns the desolate toward renewal, as "catalpa front, . . . raccoon scat & mushroom waste embroider the / path I'm on."

--Nathalie Anderson, poet, librettist, Pew Fellow, author of Rough, Stain, and Held and Firmly Bound

About the Author

Eli Goldblatt is a professor of English at Temple University. His poems have appeared over the last thirty years in many small literary journals, most recently in magazines such as The Pinch, Cincinnati Review, Hambone, Paper Air, Another Chicago Magazine, Madison Review, Louisiana Literature, and Hubbub. His books of poems include Journeyman's Song (Coffee House, 01/01/1990), Sessions 162 (Chax Press, 01/01/1991), Speech Acts (Chax Press, 1999), and Without a Trace (Singing Horse Press, 2001). Wendy Osterweil is a Master Artist (printmaking, textiles, collage, and more) living in Philadelphia. She has years of experience in books, particularly book covers. Her art is on the cover of this book.