{"id":71,"date":"2017-09-11T16:49:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=71"},"modified":"2020-05-26T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:00:09","slug":"that-train-again","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/that-train-again\/","title":{"rendered":"That Train Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mark Statman<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ISBN 978-1-935084-81-5<br \/>\n 126 pages: $16.00 &#8212; April, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mark Statman\u2019s new book of poems explores the singularly multiple worlds in which he, and all of us, love and observe, work and dream. On the edges of the intersections between metaphysical and physical spaces, the urban and rural, the reader finds, in\u00a0<em>That Train Again,<\/em>\u00a0a sense of language and form both precise and mysterious.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Praise for\u00a0<em>That Train Again<\/em>\u00a0and Mark Statman<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;an admirably light touch illuminates the seriousness behind the poems&#8230;<br \/>\n &#8211;Tony Towle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The poems are lyrical, deft, quietly smart, and admirably quotidian.<br \/>\n &#8211;Charles North<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From dead flowers to suddenly blue starlings, from possibly green herons to lions that will not sleep\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_1260670075\"><span class=\"aQJ\">tonight<\/span><\/span>, Mark Statman&#8217;s new volume bursts with the abundance of the natural world, laced by the estranging light of the imagination. The bursts of lyric ecstasy are so unforced, proceed from such a brimming-over of natural admiration, that to read this book is to skip across a field, alighting always on pebbles of joy. That is Statman&#8217;s most celebratory, most accessible book.<br \/>\n &#8211;Nicholas Bims (<strong><em>Amazon Review<\/em><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the poems in Mark Statman\u2019s lovely\u00a0<strong><em>That Train Again<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0break down into sections and titles, you could almost read this book as a long, sweet poetic day of meditation; earth, sky, birds, wind, wife, love, and the ways they attach 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\u2019s important.<br \/>\n &#8211;Cornelius Eady<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mark Statman\u2019s spare, candid poems speak of the ways a person moves \u201cfrom gold\/ into blue.\u201d\u00a0<em>That Train Again<\/em>details our daily translation of \u201cworld\/ into world.\u201d<br \/>\n &#8211;Idra Novey<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What emerges for the reader\/listener is the experience of one (the poet) experiencing the world\u2014encountering, engaging with, and trying to understand its complexity.\u00a0<strong><em>That Train Again<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0stands firmly in the present tense (though with forays to the past via memory), joyfully so. The title is perfect\u2014<strong><em>That Train Again<\/em><\/strong>\u2014emphasizing the momentariness of existence, its eternal return, and its reliance on hope. I love this book.<br \/>\n &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/pablo-medina\/\">Pablo Medina<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s very rare to watch the birth of a new style. It\u2019s like watching through a new set of Proust\u2019s kaleidoscopes. 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.<br \/>\n \u2013David Shapiro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Mark Statman\u2019s) voice brings together historical awareness with mindful surrender for the present moment (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.<br \/>\n \u2013Aliki Barnstone<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<br \/>\n \u2013Anselm Berrigan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<br \/>\n \u2014Joseph Stroud<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Statman\u2019s legit. And honest. He doesn\u2019t try to impress with literary tricks and sleight of hand. Just good, solid poetry that keeps getting better.<br \/>\n \u2014John Yamrus<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Statman gives us language as commitment, commitment as imagination, imagination as soul-making.<br \/>\n \u2014Joseph Lease<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mark Statman delivers the tourist\u2019s wonder and distance in spare, deliberate music\u2014American poetry\u2019s grand plain style 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.<br \/>\n \u2013William Corbett\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Statman<br \/>\n 978-1935084815<br \/>\n It\u2019s hard to compare it to anything.\u2013David Shapiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[16],"product_tag":[33,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-71","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-lavender-ink","7":"product_tag-mark-statman","8":"product_tag-poetry","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple","16":"berocket_lgv_grid","17":"berocket_lgv_list_grid"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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