Full Description
'Slack action' refers to the free movement experienced by the boxcar of a train, when the car coasts free, neither pushed nor pulled. Jeffery Donaldson's fifth collection, in which single words, images and even poems coast free, suggests that all life is middle life, and that we live in a present moment that coasts between a beginning we can't remember and an end we can't predict.
Contents
Slack Action Lift Slack Action Assisted Care Inspirit Hand The Contents Eocene Plant Fossil With a Line from a Dream Four Haiku Troy The Stadium More than Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Listener The Selected Poems A Touretter's 12-Tone SonnetToy Poems Jack in the Box Spinning Top Yo-Yo Rocking Horse Figurine Marbles Kite Ball Material CauseHouse of Cards Game of Marbles House of Cards Magic Lantern Kite Metaphor Correspondances An Honest Man Open When Things Are Looking Up Donkey's Way November 5th Two on Bonnard Sweet Talk At the Garden of Eden Thrift Shop and Exchange Express Checkout Jacob Leper Bell Pangaea Twice Over
