Self-portraits in Which I Do Not Appear by Clif Mason

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To open the cover of Clif Mason’s Self-portraits in Which I Do Not Appear is to begin a journey, as the epigraph by surrealist poet and painter Alice Rahon portends, to “the streaming boundaries of unlivable gold.” Evocative and always astonishing, Mason dissolves boundaries between dream and reality, between himself, the multiple voices of the poems, and the reader, between known and unknown.  His is a poet who relishes words (“the sad percussion / of flower heads”), compresses ideas (“She wore discipline like a new dress.), and tests images (“algae spread / its green kimono across the lake”), detonating the accustomed so that we may see the world anew. Often elegant and always dazzling, these poems are to be savored. They are the gold. “Every moment is a flower & a star,” Mason concludes, “& this life both a garden & a galaxy.” Close the cover of Self-portraits in Which I Do Not Appear and you will long to return.  The poet’s moon that has “drugged the sea with its milky light” will “enspell” us all.  

–Mary K. Stillwell, author of Maps & Destinations and The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser

 

 

 

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Self-portraits in Which I Do Not Appear

by Clif Mason

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-179-8

2020

Clif Mason is the author of the poetry collections, Knocking the Stars Senseless and From the Dead Before. He is fortunate that his work has been awarded prizes by the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest (chosen by Marge Piercy), Writers’ Journal, Plainsongs, the Midwest Writers’ Conference, and the Academy of American Poets. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and he has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Rwanda, Africa.

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