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Yonder<\/h2>\n

Rodger Kamenetz<\/a><\/h3>\n

ISBN:\u00a0 978-1-944884-58-1 (paper)
\n978-1-944884-59-8 (ebook)
\n106 Pages \u2022 March, 2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“For the past 15 years I’ve been working with dream clients, immersed in their dreams. I call this healing practice Natural Dreamwork. The work is phenomenological. Paying close attention \u00a0to time-space-feeling in dreams,\u00a0 I learned that dream narratives are often deceptive.
\n“At core a dream is a poem disguised as a story.
\n“I still did not know how to apply that insight to writing. I had a practice of writing down my dreams\u00a0 every night but these were not yet poems. One dawn I found the secret: \u00a0instead of writing down my dream, I could write a poem instead.\u00a0 A poem in the wake of the dream.
\n“That morning Yonder<\/em> was born.” \u00a0 \u2014Rodger Kamenetz<\/p>\n

This collection of prose poems from the author of The History of Last Night\u2019s Dream,\u00a0<\/i>The Jew in the Lotus<\/i>\u00a0and To Die Next To You<\/i> brims with respect for the genre, with homages to forebears from Baudelaire to Max Jacob, Russel Edson to Kafka.<\/p>\n

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Praise for Rodger Kamenetz and Yonder<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rodger Kamenetz asks the most accurate and urgent questions in his wonderful new collection\u2014and he has the wisdom not to answer them (except with other, better questions), so that each stop is a starting place, and we are constantly delighted as we discover the limits of what we thought we learned. Recognition and misrecognition are key motifs in these exquisite prose poems, and while it may be in the latter that the poetry of the truth most brilliantly flowers, each step of the process has the elegant and inevitable pacing of a religious vision. Don\u2019t be afraid to be converted! Readers who enter this book will find themselves in a dreamy resonant meditative space of Keatsian uncertainty and Kafkaesque parable, where attention is a devotion, and the lyric speaker seeks a knowledge which brings both redemption and further damage. A splendid antidote to our image and brand-obsessed moment: in Yonder<\/i>identity is sought in order to be surrendered. Give in! \u201cIn dream logic we pour like smoke from one body to another.\u201d
\n\u2014Laura Mullen<\/strong>, author of Complicated Grief<\/i><\/p>\n

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In Roger Kamenetz\u2019s new book, the elsewhere of its title turns out to be the composite dreamscapes of the big Bees (Baudelaire, Berryman and Barthelme). Imagine the paintings of Arp and Dali translated into English and French by way of the Borscht Belt and you have a sense of Kamenetz\u2019s neo-surrealism where \u201cA face sings a gigantic vowel and opens to a vow, an O as the round eye of surprise\u201d and \u201cA waterfall of laughter makes a near palindrome.\u201d With a dark humor more wry than dry (\u201cThere is a God but God does not exist\u201d), Kamenetz sings the body\u2019s electric Imaginary.\u00a0
\n<\/span>\u2014Tyrone Williams<\/b>, author of As iZ<\/i><\/p>\n

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The prose poems of Rodger Kamenetz are mysterious. Are they dreams? Or parables? Zen koans? Or surrealist films? Like all of the above, they make a kind of crazy sense, the sort of wisdom only a jester can attain. More puzzling and explosive with every read, these startling revelations are so illogical as to be perfect.
\n\u2014Kit Robinson<\/strong>, author of Marine Layer<\/i><\/p>\n

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Rodger Kamenetz\u2019s Yonder<\/i>is aptly named; through humor, wisdom, daring and pathos, it perpetually aims for what\u2019s beyond us: \u201cBy all means ignore me said the poet into the silence. The feeling is mutual, silence did not reply.\u201d\u00a0 I found myself laughing out loud\u00a0 — \u201cHe has been known in Memphis as Elvis The Shabbas Goy\u201d;\u00a0 \u201cIf it were my dream, the escalator would go to Kansas\u201d\u2014learning from Midrash after Midrash\u2014\u201ca mockingbird sang an inhuman psalm.\u00a0 King David\u00a0 would would have been glad to hear that praise\u00a0 \u2026 would have blessed that avian music with fluttering hands\u201d\u2014and often, quite simply, moved: \u201cAnd when I go who will carry this envelope? Who read the letter inside?\u201d
\n\u2014Jacqueline Osherow<\/strong>, author of Ultimatum from Paradise<\/i><\/p>\n

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Rodger Kamenetz\u2019s Yonder<\/i>belongs in the company of the classic prose poems of Charles Baudelaire and Russell Edson. Surrealist, comic, Kamenetz is a magician of metaphor and imagination who pulls out of the hat of his subconscious, the unpredictable and astounding. Read Yonder<\/i>and be amazed.
\n\u2014Jesse Lee Kercheval<\/strong>, author of Cinema Muto<\/i><\/p>\n

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