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Through
a series of poised, meditative
stanzas, The Clock Maker’s
Memoir takes on the formidable
topics of time and memory. What’s
evident throughout this book
is a careful craftsmanship leading
to novel perspectives all around
the clock.
—
Lisa Jarnot
The
Clock Maker’s Memoir registers
the world’s variety in small
catalogs of storms, shadows,
dreams, memories, and rituals
of childhood. In such forms,
time returns each time with
a difference. Likewise, the
supple measure of these poems
returns us to a rhythm or tone
each time with a difference,
sounding a subtle echo of slipped
in sleep. As William Blake declares,
“There is a Moment in each Day
that Satan cannot find / Nor
can his Watch Fiends find it.”
Yet Dan Featherston finds it
— through alert and resourceful
art.
—
Devin Johnston
With
its precise music, The Clock
Maker’s Memoir navigates
the immeasurable distance between
the clock’s face and the face
worn by lived experiences. In
these poems, memoir is not some
static repository: it is a poesis
of the present tense. Featherston’s
craft and his unblinking commitment
to particulars fashion a lyric
search that one can trust to
ask the questions, the necessary
questions of time, space, and
how we find one another amidst
all this memory.
—Richard
Deming
78
pp. (22.5 x 15 cm.). 2007. Trade
paperback edition of 250. $12
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