Dear All

By Michael Gottlieb

Poetry. Michael Gottlieb's DEAR ALL strikes a note of change to both Gottlieb's style and his intentions to change society by holding up a mirror to it. The resulting social vanitas in DEAR ALL's short lines make us think that the world might be different than we think it is. And the poetry certainly is different than we expect. The sonorous, lexical intricacy, social indignation and attention to imaginative, formal detail DEAR ALL presents to us undresses our intention in the public square. "In DEAR ALL Michael Gottlieb introduces a shorter line and a pared-down style, as paratactic as ever but with a new clipped clarity. Of course, Gottlieb is writer enough to abolish the neatness of this progression, as he does in the final long poem of this book, a wild mash-up of medical spam that reframes the book in terms of its formal inconsistency: Great stuff."—Steve Zultansky. Michael Gottlieb is the author of 19 books, including I HAD EVERY INTENTION (Faux Press, 2014), DEAR ALL (Roof Books, 2013), and MEMOIR AND ESSAY (Faux Press, 2010) most recently, as well as several memoirs and extended essays on the discipline and community of poetry. A stage adaptation of his definitine 9/11 poem, "The Dust," was performed at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. He was born in New York City. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Roof Books
• Release date: May 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781931824507

Book preview

DEAR ALL

Also by Michael Gottlieb

Letters To A Middle Aged Poet

The Dust

Memoir And Essay

The Likes Of Us

Lost And Found

Careering Obloquy

Gorgeous Plunge

More Than All (with Ted Greenwald)

The Night Book

The River Road

Valu Pac

New York

The Blue Slope

Pantographic

96 Tears

Local Color/Eidetic Deniers

DEAR ALL

Michael Gottlieb

ROOF BOOKS

NEW YORK

Copyright © 2013 Michael Gottlieb

ISBN: 978-1-931824-50-7

Library of Congress Card Catalog No. 2013931837

Cover and author photo by Isabel Gottlieb

Art by James Siena

Geared Pathway, 2011, graphite on paper, photograph by Kerry Ryan McFate,

courtesy Pace Gallery, page 8

Shaded Connected Hooks—long way l'ile du Levant, 2007, graphite on paper,

photograph courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery, page 40

shaded connected hooks, 2007, graphite on paper, photograph by G.R. Christmas,

courtesy Pace Gallery, page 72

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to the editors of the following publications in which some of

these poems originally appeared: The Brooklyn Rail, Boog City Reader,

Bumpers/Cuneiform Press, Critiphoria, Otoliths, Summerstock

This book was made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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ONE

IS THERE ANY SUCH THING AS SALVAGE

GO BIG

I’M JUST SAYING

SEVEN AGAINST THEMES

NO FRENEMIES ON THE LEFT

BIG BOX ESCHATALOGY

ALL OF YOUR SURGICAL SUPPLY NEEDS

WE DWELL IN THE LOWER CASE

SINGLE SERVE PACKET

A FLYING SQUAD

FROM YOUR MOUTH TO MAGOG’S EAR

REDUCED IN PRINCIPAL

THE HEAVEN BENEATH OUR FEET

A MUST-AVOID

RENT SEEKING FOR THE REST OF US

INFORMATIONAL SESSION

IF LIONEL WAS ONLY A TRAIN

THE ASCENDING CHORDS OF THE DULCET FARFISA

OUT OF SOMEWHERE

THE REPRISED