Jumping the Line (Roof Books)

by Ted Greenwald and Cleo Qian

Poetry. In JUMPING THE LINE, Ted Greenwald has created an ingeniously alluring structure. Five of the central lines of the poem are identical: the 11th and 13th, 12th and 14th, 15th and 16th, 17th and 20th, and 18th and 19th. The gentle but persistent permutation and context-shifting of this 'ghostly sewing' create 'machine songs' that are semantically open, experimentally spacious, and thematically self-reflective. The rich, enfolding calm of these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937804770
• ISBN13: 9780937804773
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Roof Books
• Length: 116 Pages