SCALAPINO, Leslie
that they were at the beach

Just what is it that makes yesterday’s poetry books so different, so appealing?

For this collection of poems and prose, Leslie Scalapino has gathered four sequences into what she calls an “aeolotropic series.” The poems reflect each other like crystals and change like highly polished glass illuminated by a shifting light. They follow the mind from thought and observation to afterthought, reflection, and obsession.

Published by North Point Press, 1985
Design by David Bullen
Poetry