Bøger af David Anthony Martin

In his second collection of poetry, David Anthony Martin uses the mirror of nature and the lens of experience to reveal the depths of the experience of life. His poetry illuminates the beauty of the world and reflects an abiding affection for family, nature, and language itself. Martin's personality shines in every phrase and image, and his poetry dances between ecstatic joy and monastic reverence. In telling his stories he reveals a thread of contemporary contemplation and a continuing exploration of the interior landscapes of life and love, feelings and fears, of growing up and growing together. "Thoreau, Cid Corman, Lorine Niedecker, Whalen & Snyder, Sam Hamill and now David Martin, a wilderness walker returning as the missing lynx in the lineage of nature based poetry heartbeating it's way into our gorges & forests" Mike Parker, author of Don't Fall Off The Mountain, Wallflower Sutra and Walking on Water in a Razorblade Breeze. Many of these poems to function as mini-meditations where the inner world and outer worlds become interchangeable mirrors reflecting each other, in others they each become lenses through which to deeper examine the other. Deepening the Map shows a reverence for the natural world that verges on sacred relationship; a relationship which inspires the poets sense of connection and meaning. Martin explores deeper territory and shows us the interconnectedness; the subtle web between all things in the increasingly complex relationship between humankind and nature. As the title poem denotes how we see the world can make all the difference, and these poems are keys to doors of perception offering a sense of the wholeness of the world. These doors, or gateless gates, open into a world dominated by nature, especially by animals in language that explores themes which personal and universal, mythic and elemental. These poems impart emotion in a quiet, thoughtful and conversational manner, as though one were leafing through an album of a friend. It has been said that Martin is equally at home writing acorn-tight three line poems as well as the sprawling streams of forty-liners, and in Deepening the Map he offers us more of both. He balances the seemingly simple, but powerful and thought provoking "h ear t" with the undeniable, urgent romanticism of "vessels." Regardless of poem size or structure, prevailing throughout is an excellent eye and ear for detail and a finger on the pulse of the heart of the matter at hand. These are poems to read and re-read, poems that transport the reader into another world that is actually our world; as William Butler Yeats said, "There is another world, but it is inside this one." "David Anthony Martin is a nature poet the way Frank O'Hara was a city poet. He has paid attention, assimilated the beauty and mystery of his surroundings, and let it color his poetry in delicate ways." 
 Corey Mesler, author of Before the Great Troubling, Following Richard Brautigan and Notes Toward the Story and Other Stories. "Your eyes, eyes of a bard." 
 Janine Pommy Vega, author of The Green Piano, Tracking The Serpent and Mad Dogs of Trieste " Deepening the Map is a collection that eloquently takes the reader from mountain peaks, to the depths of canyons, the limitlessness of open fields, but ultimately awakens our humanity. And the threats our humanity has on nature. This is a collection of work that will leave beautiful sketches in the mind while etching compassion in the heart of the reader." Marie Loerzel
, author of Rock the Kasbah: A Memoir of Misadventure

"span is a selection of poems written by David A. Martin, reflecting a unique undercurrent in the reawakening of environmental consciousness in the American west." Rhizome Publishing David A. Martin, an environmental educator and naturalist, holds hands with man's separation from nature and man's return to union with nature as he focuses on the beauty and elegance of Nature wherever he finds it. These poems illuminate the simplicity and complexity of the inner and outer worlds of the poet. The cover art by Mathias Valdez of Last Leaf Printing takes the book as object" concept to a lovely level. Span also makes a great, inexpensive gift for the book or nature lover on your list.

A collection of small poems, haiku and micropoetry that range between the domesticity of washing dishes and curry stains to the esoteric plumbing of the universe. As always, Martin's lines evoke the transcendent within their allusions, but nowhere is this illustrated more concisely than in these tiny poems that measure far beyond their meter. "These are poems to carry in your metaphorical pocket like small runic stones, with lines that you will want to contemplate again and again." -Corey Mesler, author of The Sky Needs More Work, The Catastrophe of My Personality, Before the Great Troubling and many other books. "David Martin is a voice of the spirit, his poems are Zen anecdotes. One is moved by his language, he captures the silence behind language, the secrets behind the profound, the mystery behind nature." -Tony Moffeit, author of Luminous Animal and Poetry is Dangerous: The Poet is an Outlaw and won the Jack Kerouac Award from Cherry Creek editions and the Thomas Hornsby Ferril Poetry Prize. "It takes a certain kind of craft to master the language. These three or four liners are stunning as lighting and strike a match across the imagination. David Martin has accomplished in a concise way what some poetry loses in lengthy stanzas. He attains a certain closure on a short string of words that is refreshing. In creating these wonderful little nuggets called micropoetry and poems akin to haiku, David imputes the wisdom of our daily experience and the mystery. of living life..." - Bruce Owens, author of Across the Light, Eddies in the Rush, Quiet Places and Mend the Broken Branch