BREATH
“an extended meditation on...the psychic wormholes that allow instantaneous travel along our internal galaxies, that hide just underneath the next memory, the next sentence, and behind the all, the ALL itself—unknowable, perhaps, but in Pines’ poetry nearly imaginable.”
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IN GAY HEAD
over a breakfast of blue
Wampanoag pancakes
I read that
a "lost world"
discovered in a Viet Namese
forest near Laos
contains
a new species
of fish
a yellow tortoise
a sunbird
& a mysterious horned mammal
how like
the Unicorn
(who becomes
invisible
at the first
sign of hunters
in the wood)
to have survived
in what is described
as
a tear-shaped
piece of
ground
“Paul Pines embarks upon a search for cosmic fuel in “Breath,” a book of poetry steeped in a problem with the cellular body. As an asthmatic, Pines writes from an affliction increasingly linked to a childhood upset of immune cells, which lead to a dangerous overproduction of antibodies in the lungs. The archetypal, environmental, psychological, social and spiritual significance of asthma is always in the background of Breath. With feeling and intelligence, Pines illustrates how Breath circulates as poetic form through blocked passages between matter and energy, childhood and adulthood, name and voice, image and articulation, reception and resuscitation.”