In his most personal collection to date, Brian Bartlett meditates upon time and family. We share his son’s discovery of newborn spiders and his daughter’s first grasp of infinity as a concept. In companion poems on the births of his mother and father, Bartlett makes you feel as if you were alive at those moments in history. The opening poem, “All the Train Trips,” displays an uncanny sense of homes and families lost and the casual friendships struck up in conversations in the “bar car.” “Pearly Everlasting” expresses a longing to register the world in the body through the naming of flowers. Books and the history of poetry shape time for Bartlett, whether in found poems woven from the words of books inherited from ancestors or in the words of great poets that, despite the distance, convey a shared sense of humanity. Wrestling with time as if he were both Jacob and the angel, Bartlett speaks both for time’s dominion and for human mutability.
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“A series of inventive, subtle and deeply cutting speculations on the passage of time.” — Carmine Starnino (20130118)
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“Like watered silk, these poems are shot through with light. Prince of the quotidian, Brian Bartlett catches the moment in all its complicated poignancy, even as he observes that moment’s vanishing into the 'sideways 8,' the vastness of time.” — Mary Dalton, author of Merrybegot (20120503)
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Sure to give fans of Bartlett's past work their much needed fix
Aug 17 2008
By Midwest Book Review
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Author Brian Bartlett has five published books of award-winning poetry already under his belt; "The Watchmaker's Table" is his sixth anthology, sure to give fans of his past work their much needed fix. Focusing on Bartlett's family and ancestry, "The Watchmaker's Table" looks back on the past and paints a picture of humanity with vivid verse. Highly recommended for community library poetry collections.
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