From Away - Paperback

by Eli Goldblatt (Author), Wendy Osterweil (Other)

From Away is filled with spaces where memory fades into forgetfulness, where inattention opens into startling recollection. Writing out of the pandemic, Goldblatt registers desolation realistically and surrealistically, in dreams forgotten at their margins, and yet turns the desolate toward renewal, as " catalpa front, . . . raccoon scat & mushroom waste embroider the / path I'm on."

Author Biography

Eli Goldblatt is a professor of English at Temple University. His poems have appeared over the last thirty years in many small literary journals, most recently in magazines such as The Pinch, Cincinnati Review, Hambone, Paper Air, Another Chicago Magazine, Madison Review, Louisiana Literature, and Hubbub. His books of poems include Journeyman's Song (Coffee House, 01/01/1990), Sessions 162 (Chax Press, 01/01/1991), Speech Acts (Chax Press, 1999), and Without a Trace (Singing Horse Press, 2001). Wendy Osterweil is a Master Artist (printmaking, textiles, collage, and more) living in Philadelphia. She has years of experience in books, particularly book covers. Her art is on the cover of this book.