Poems of Lee Bassett, 1973-2000

By Lee Bassett

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0911287345
• ISBN13: 9780911287349
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Blue Begonia Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

uniquely original sequences now collected

Over the years, Lee Bassett's sequences--in chapbooks like Hatsutaiken and News From the Past Mistakes Hermitage, and in full-length books like Lucy and the Blue Quail and The Lonesome Beauty of the Moment--have declared a unique voice, neither confessional nor detatched, a voice in which questions of home become questions of being, emotion, and right action. Bassett's poems work as messages and meditations from the perspective of a traveler, one restlessly unsettled, consistently aware of the traveler's twin perspective: confronting the past with patience, complexity, regret, confusion, and celebration; looking forward with hesitancy, interest, hopefulness, and concern. These poems proceed by image and rightness of sound; they construct not so much narratives as world-views.