Gordon Walmsley / The Braille of the Sea (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

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Those familiar with the spiritual poetry of Walmsley know that he writes like an angel. This does not mean sweetness and light. Rather, this means a voice, or voices, which use words as DNA alive; runic; beautiful; unprotected; on a quest - parallel, or not, to the poet's own quest. `Braille' here implicates sight, sound, smell, touch, taste. The book is in fact not a collection, it is one continuous poem. Elements expand and contract, interpenetrate vastness and detail (`an Irish blanket makes the chair better'). Flashes, too, of other poets (are they really there?): the pre-Socratics, Vaughan, Dickinson, others. Other flashes, of 2018: `terrorists', `money.' The poet urges his listeners (who are they? himself? the reader?) to concentrate, because voices, whether internal or external, are only aids to the heart. Gordon Walmsley is from New Orleans but he has lived in Europe for most of his life. He now lives in Copenhagen.

These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or marks on the edges of the pages