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Mark Statman<\/a><\/h2>\n

Hechizo<\/h3>\n

ISBN:\u00a0 978-1-944884-96-3 (pbk.)
\nJanuary, 2022 (Preorder pricing until Jan. 1)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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An hechizo<\/i> is a spell, an incantation that attempts to effect change in the world via language. Mark Statman’s Hechizo<\/i> is woven through a world of personal demons, past and present, a world facing a pandemic and social, political, and environmental dissolution. These incantations take aim at the world from the smallest lizard that crawls into view to overarching political structures. It\u2019s a register not seen in his work before–of foreboding, the forbidden, concluding in tentative, possible joy.<\/p>\n

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The spell of Mark Statman\u2019s magical, marvelously absorbing Hechizo<\/i> begins with Furies and ends in Love. The poems’ casual yet perfectly poised short lines engender a sense of unbreakable continuity, until there\u2019s \u201cnothing\/left but ash and\/unmoving angelic their\/feathered wings\u201d as they bring all opposites together \u201cwhen change\/and the same are\/the same.\u201d They are an endless source of delight.
\n–John Koethe<\/b><\/p>\n

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The poems in Statman\u2019s beautiful new book\u00a0Hechizo\u00a0occupy the thin place between life and death, dream and waking, love and loss. His words cast a spell on the reader; one can hear the music in each line–as if there were a voice emanating from the page. In his work, the Mexican landscape is pulsating with life, but so are the recently and long dead, as well as vibrant memories of life and people left behind.
\n–Joanna Fuhrman<\/b><\/p>\n

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Praise for <\/b>Exile Home<\/i>, <\/b>That Train Again<\/i>, <\/b>A Map of the Winds<\/i>, and Mark Statman<\/b><\/p>\n

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Mark Statman\u2019s new book Exile Home<\/i> is a love poem, a snapshot, to the poet\u2019s adopted country so fresh in the poem \u201cMi M\u00e9xico\u201d. The air, the light, the poignancy of little girl with wooden bowl, & mystery of life next to another, a beloved partner, buzz with sharp grace. A contrast across the border, with family loss, but no walls, here. Power of \u201call the unseen\u2026 writ in glass in water clouds\u201d join the fiesta. No ideas but in things. I want to go there too.\u00a0 <\/span>This is a sweet and pungent sensory exile, almost a dream.<\/p>\n

\u2014Anne Waldman<\/i><\/p>\n

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Exile Home<\/i> is an elegiac journey of discovery: \u201cthe room\/ that lights\/ the house\u201d is the possibility of coming to be who you are in whatever place we find ourrselves. These are poems of transition as a form of mediation and meditation. Mark Statman\u2019s short lines mark the flux of sentiment as openness to what\u2019s next. \u201ccan you believe\/ we live like this?\u201d Only time tells.<\/p>\n

\u2014Charles Bernstein<\/i><\/p>\n

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Mark Statman\u2019s fiercely elegiac book begins with the long poem, \u201cGreen Side Up,\u201d dedicated to his father.\u00a0 <\/span>Written in lower case with no punctuation, it provides quick flashes of family memory and the present reality of grief.\u00a0 <\/span>The reader is utterly absorbed and lifted:\u00a0 <\/span>\u201con the phone\/ you say it\u2019s\/ another DIP\/ day in paradise\/ waking early enough\/ there were no\/ sounds of morning\/ only birdsong breeze\/ the meaning of paradise\/ that first moment\/ alone and taking in\/ coffee and sunlight.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>This is realism in the most beautiful sense. We are taken to the living moment as it passes.\u00a0 <\/span>Italo Calvino wrote of \u201cthe moral values invested in the most tenuous traces.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s in \u201cthe intensity of minor acts\u201d (John Ashbery) that we are folded into the cloak of truth: \u201cwe did this\/ we did this\/ it happened\/ before we thought it.\u201d It was \u201ca voice made for radio\u201d:\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cAl Statman here\/ good morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Paul Hoover<\/i><\/p>\n

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At his best, Mark Statman whimsically seduces us to plug what large emptiness we carry into the day. Such a playfulness of spirit and sound, not yet outlawed in these parts, lifts us toward some unforeseen feeling or study of human life that would have eluded us, were it not for his sparse and controlled lines. Here is an eclectic imagination that redeems the conventional exploits of language and all the dead zones around us. Exile Home<\/i> consecrates Statman\u2019s forever voice.<\/p>\n

\u2014Major Jackson<\/i><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s very rare to watch the birth of a new style. It\u2019s like watching through new set of Proust\u2019s kaleidescopes. Mark Statman has been working for years on a vision of himself and parts of the city\u2014concentrated and bare as any poetry. It\u2019s hard to compare it to anything else.<\/p>\n

\u2014David Shapiro<\/i><\/p>\n

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Sieve-like and shifty language with more directness and clarity than obfuscation and obtuseness. The father poem of Exile Home<\/i>, \u201cGreen Side Up,\u201d is a triumph of courage and poetry and love. From it the manuscript opens like a flower of multiple petals. I am enthralled by a seeming innocence and a creeping wisdom, which, rather than distort the innocence, strengthens it. After all, we have the choice to see the world as unconcerned about our troubles in it. It is the world, not a bark on which we float toward happiness. An assertion of the will to see hope as language-driven, music-clad. Mr. Yeats and his wind-up birds. There are many drowsy emperors out there.<\/p>\n

\u2014Pablo Medina<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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To date, in spite of an incredibly productive and much lauded career as a poet, Mark Statman\u2019s greatest claim to fame is his astonishing translation, with Pablo Medina, of Garc\u00eda Lorca\u2019s Poet in New York<\/i>. Exile Home<\/i> changes all that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2014John Yamrus<\/i><\/p>\n

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Although the poems in Mark Statman\u2019s lovely That Train Again<\/i> break down into sections and titles, you could almost read this book as a long, sweet poetic day of meditation; earth sky, birds, winds, wife, love, and the ways they attach themselves to the poet and, through him, to us. A good book of poetry will urge us not to miss the fine details. Here is music to slow the pulse and re-tune the ear to what is important.<\/p>\n

\u2014Cornelius Eady<\/i><\/p>\n

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Mark Statman\u2019s spare, candid poems speak of the ways a person moves \u201cfrom fold\/into blue.\u201d That Train Again<\/i> details out daily translation of \u201cworld\/into world.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Idra Novey<\/i><\/p>\n

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Mark Statman\u2019s voice brings together historical awareness with mindful surrender for the present moments (that sometimes calls back memories from psyche\u2019s depths). Mark Statman\u2019s lines are maps of the wind that carry us into wonder and love.<\/p>\n

\u2014Aliki Barnstone<\/i><\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

\u2014Anselm Berrigan<\/i><\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Joseph Stroud<\/i><\/p>\n

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\u2026an admirably light touch illuminates the seriousness behind the poems\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014Tony Towle<\/i><\/p>\n

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

\u2014William Corbett\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Statman gives us language as commitment, commitment as imagination, imagination as soul-making.<\/p>\n

\u2014Joseph Lease<\/i><\/p>\n

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