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.
