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Mark Statman<\/h2>\n

ISBN: 978-1-935084-43-3
\n 120 pages: $15.00
\n June, 2013<\/p>\n

\u201cWrite me a poem\/called a map of the winds,\u201d asks Mark Statman\u2019s son. Knowing he can\u2019t, Statman writes one instead about father and son, about belief and Brooklyn. In this new poetry collection, Statman investigates what it means to look at the world, to live in the world, and to wonder about it in ways that are at once speculative and specific. Whether traveling (England, South America, Italy, across the United States) or being at home, this practice of looking closely and imagining, translates into poems that are spare and descriptive (\u201cconcentrated and bare as any poetry,\u201d writes David Shapiro). At once direct and elusive, these poems show how the closer Statman gets to understanding what he sees, what results is the realization that he has not seen enough, perhaps not at all, yielding another investigation, another series of imperative questions.<\/p>\n

\n

A Map of the Winds<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a lovely book, filled with moments of ordinary perception given uncommon attention. Sung through a register of gentle if unrelenting consciousness on the part of the poet that the present is always inexhaustibly on the move, Statman\u2019s spare, concise, searching poems channel notations of experience through the visual and aural senses to frame and extend \u201cvoice that stands for voice \/ captures what I want and need \/ not resemblance\u201d. That necessary sense of voicing-as-one-goes in order to handle uncertainty as a point of thematic variation finds its ground in an expansive set of locations: Brooklyn, Mexico, Colombia, the Catskill Mountains. And always at once the recognition and curiosity of \u201clanguage again giving him \/ a place for the world\u201d.
\n \u2014Anselm Berrigan<\/p>\n

How delightfully apt that\u00a0A Map of the Winds<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is \u201ca gift\u201d from Mark Statman\u2019s son, or is it Statman\u2019s gift to his son? Such are the riddles tenderly offered us in this book, koans with duende that befit the international scope of a consummate poet-translator. His voice brings together historical awareness with mindful surrender to the present moment (that sometime calls back memories from the psyche\u2019s depths). Whether the observer is with his wife or son, bird-watching in a cottage, or on the streets of Brooklyn or Bogota, Mark Statman\u2019s lines are maps of the wind that carry us into wonder and love.
\n \u2014Aliki Barnstone<\/p>\n

Plain-spoken and direct, Mark Statman\u2019s poems \u201cmake it new.\u201d They reach our common core, where they find beauty and they find song.
\n \u2014Pablo Medina<\/a><\/p>\n

Statman\u2019s legit.\u00a0 And honest.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t try to impress with literary tricks and sleight of hand.\u00a0 Just good, solid poetry that keeps getting better.
\n \u2014John Yamrus<\/p>\n

Mark Statman deliver\u2019s the tourist\u2019s wonder and distance in spare, deliberate music\u2014American poetry\u2019s grand plain style descended from William Carlos Williams and James Schuyler\u2014Statman is a head-on poet willing to risk clarity in pursuit of the marvelous we might encounter anywhere.
\n \u2014William Corbett<\/p>\n

Mark Statman is a poet who has mastered the difficult craft of transparency \u2014 you look through his poems into the world, a world sometimes luminous, sometimes dark, but always accompanied with a sense of astonishment and grace. Statman\u2019s voice is a kind of spare lyricism that reminds me of the ancient Greek poets of the Anthology or the concise voicings of Antonio Machado. There are no flourishes or frills to this kind of writing, no gilding or ornamentation:<\/p>\n

the poem travels in strange ways
\n it starts with quiet
\n ends with the quiet
\n in between is quiet too
\n the words of prayers
\n unspoken, taking their place
\n in the world<\/p>\n

Many of the poems in\u00a0A Map of Winds<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0are concerned with human connections and relationships, between the self and the world, father and son, lovers, neighbors, strangers. There is as well what Seamus Heaney calls \u201cthe shape-making impulse, the emergence and convergence into a wholeness.\u201d Statman\u2019s vision is embracive and celebratory. His is the kind of poetry that concerns itself with how to live a thoughtful, responsible, and clear life, the kind of poetry we need to have.<\/p>\n

let me
\n write
\n into the world
\n an other idea
\n of world
\n that would
\n begin
\n with grace
\n and close
\n with grace<\/p>\n

\u2014Joseph Stroud<\/p>\n

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