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SHUT UP, LEAVES Tony Iantosca 96 pages, paperback Cover by Zachary Cummings ISBN: 0-935992-42-1 Copyright © 2015 $15.00 "Tony Iantosca's sentences sharpen all the senses at once; the heard world is as present as the seen and touched. "I'm tapping my foot to nothing much," but actually, it's the profound rhythm of elegy disguised as mundane, everyday life: street, couch, phone, heart. Something or someone is missing, it could be a dog, it could be the poet. There are rumors of Ted Greenwald and Joseph Ceravolo in these poems, amidst their self-deprecating vernacular, calling to mind William Carlos Williams when Spring and All was green. 'Once poetry / was important I guess or at least / peripherally relevant to something / everyone else was doing.' This is unfashionable and excellent poetry. Consider reading it to a lover so as to elicit a reciprocal feeling, 'or whatever.' It will work." Matvei Yankelevich "The poet-voyeur in Shut Up, Leaves walks his reader into a world of senseless losses and discrepancies. We go along, each poem a door to a new labyrinth of paradoxical situations, and we believe we are really heading somewhere. Iantosca's poems are compelling in their imaginative engagement with language and emotion, and they make us rethink the way we see and live in the world. This is a necessary book." Barbara Henning UPDATED ORDERING INFO COMING SOON RETURN TO BOOK LIST |
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