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[Return to Guest Poets Page] [Next Page]Bob HartBob Hart, who reads on the New York circuit, has become increasingly aware of the demands that poets performing or being displayed on the net submit bios (short biographies). He finds this phenomenon mildly interesting but mostly boring.His new book, Acrobat, will be out soon, published by Words & Pictures Press. The following excerpt is an introduction: Bob Hart is a lean man. If he appeared suddenly, you would think he was a shadow come to life. You could think he was a piece of driftwood from an old time when forests were time-foragers that moved across centuries as wisdom armies, as libraries waiting to be born. If you look into his eyes you can see cathedrals being built. He listens for footsteps on the Plic Plac Dance Floor and he writes them down. As you drive for home you may see him above factory smoke stacks preparing to swing on his trapeze, wearing candy striped clothes. A man like this is not a man, but a live bit of history of creation moving under time, under your awareness, like scent on a breeze. If you breathe in you feel an intelligence, just as you can feel water sleeping, black under city bridges. This intelligence, when we notice it, we call culture. Farming. Farming a universe out of images and bright time. When you enter this book, prepare to come out beautifully different. But you may want to stay for a long while. Bob Hart's universe is habitable and habit forming. He is truly an Acrobat, dancing in high places in your brightest mind. Russell Salamon Sacred Pleasantry You know that place they call The Cloisters One complex building made of parts of several places All medieval With that middle age ornate simplicity: pious statues, sunstained glass, household pottery, intently colored paintings, little turning stairs, metal candlegrips like giant jesters, tapestry run with hunters, beasts and grass and flowers; fountained tiny-pillared gardens indoors and outside both at once? Walk in with me some years ago to that stone elfinry where a certain lightness took my looking making tender to the sight the substance of the wall; making the high up windows (where out-sun filtered in) closer to me in being than normally they had been or would often be. The harsh and bearded traveller, Time, wandering that day, would have checked with new and saintly eyes the wooden-ceilinged room with polished chandelier I stood in; he wold walk weaponless subject to that day's graceful rule; held awed by faultless cherries seen outside a window's glass. You say you have some private place, some special place, castle and cloister of your own domain; sacred, seldom seen, landscaped round about, looking from where you lightly view the Summers of this mundane world blending these and yours at will? Hello, then. (And if not, hello still.) Create tree and field, maintain each leaf (its bend and turn), each part of grass (its own unkempt geometry), the playful courtesy that keeps life. Copyright © 1999. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Duplication of this poetry and/or art without permission of the author/artist is forbidden under copyright law. Please ask permission if you wish to use for non-commercial purposes
Tuesday, July 11, 2000 |