Seasons by Neil Baldwin (1976)

Seasons

Neil Baldwin 

salt-works press

Dennis, MA

(c)1976

Cover stock handmade from recycled paper. With hand-sewn binding. 

Baldwin's poems are laid out in non-traditional ways which attract me. (why have I never heard of this guy before?) The phrasing, the empty space, holding one's mental breath between lines; GLORIOUS!

I especially liked the final poem in this chapbook, "the white poet talks about his weekly visits to the Rehabilitation Center" and the slightly out of context line : 'Poetry

                             without rigor yet the form 

                             occurs', which to me feels like validation.