Already Long Ago

By David Giannini

Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Awards; The Osa and Lee Mays Award For Poetry; an award for prosepoetry from the University of Florida; a Finalist Award from the Naugatuck Review, and a Finalist Award for the James Hearst Poetry Prize of The North American Poetry Review in 2021.

The poems in this book are selected from a year's worth of work in writing lyric and narrative poems, songs, prose poems, hybrid haibun, short and long-lined haiku. There are five sections, discrete sets of concerns working together toward an overall envisioning. An intuitive reader will know how the poems work with and off one another, set to-set. It is one work, whole, a year within it, but not in terms of its chronology. Every part, each poem, refers in some measure, to every other part. As Jean-Luc Godard said of his medium, "A film consists of a beginning, a middle and an end, though not necessarily in that order."

Poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1953252796
• ISBN13: 9781953252791
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: DOS Madres Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.