Spirit Spout

By Devon Balwit

Book Overview

Devon Balwit's Spirit Spout - a poetic vision directly engaging with Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale - is an eschatological tour de force. The poet practices an intertextual jouissance showcasing singular gifts for sound and image. We encounter "the thrown gauntlet // the poking prod of the devil's own advocate"; there is salt, wind, brine and ocean; Melville as god, as demon; Melville in the throes of creation and also grieving. Ishmael, Ahab, and Queequeg beckon. Both travelogue and existential reckoning with life, there is a painterly attention to the physical, to the body; there is a grappling with sociology and philosophy: "Our thinking // always butting up against the ribs / of the paradigms we travel in." Balwit's powers are on full display - this book's spirit is deep and wide. - Charles Kell, author of Ishmael Mask

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949279456
• ISBN13: 9781949279450
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Nixes Mate Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.4" x 9.0"