Cuneiform Press, hardcover
Publication Date: May 1, 2026
Publisher Marketing: What a great master of plasticity. Energy and capacity and beauty much to admire in this sumptuous collection of Jim Dine's poetry. With pentimento manuscript and visuals. Poems like sculptures. Poems as testimonies to friendship to profundity of lifelong haunting curiosity in myriad directions. Gustatory heart. And heartbreak for a shimmering wounded world. Tall order: quotidian detail, poetry-in-action never messy but musical. Pruning the garden, travel, home, muscular skinny screeds and elegies, endless conversation, struggle and wit, a huge span. Hail the hunter and gatherer! How he builds poetry with such a firm hand. Yet intimacy day and night functions and magically protects as well. He is in league with Tom Raworth, Bob Creeley, Ron Padgett. Outliers, NY Schoolers, Black Mountaineers. Our genius avant-garde. I really hear and see you here, Jim. It's a tonic, a lifeline, so refreshing.
— Anne Waldman
