Narrows [Paperback]

History and deep feeling converge in this luminous debutEarly Interior
Augury
The Detective
My Engine Died
The Synthetic
Lullaby
Corrected Metaphor
A Dictation
Experiment with a Sleeper
Cold Regime
Fred Ott’s Sneeze
Vernal Ford
The Brutalist
Commercial Myths
The Day of the Flood
Invocation
The Occupied
Prison Barter System
Chambers
Dream with Racoons
Still Flight with Oranges
The Trained Eye
Single Speed
For a Theme
Exile
The Escape Artists
Ursa Minor
Paragone
Topiary Poem
My Advocacy
The Anthropomorph
Ballpoint Pen
The Terrestrial
The Patriarchs
Love Poem
The Cloudbank
Distraction
After the Story of Job
Preparations for the Last Photograph
No Parable
Weird Season
Fable of a Coastal Hill
Room Pressure
Stations
Hilarity and its Relations
The Diluvian
Acknowledgments
Biographical Note BENJAMIN BLOCH works as a Clinical Psychologist at Salinas Valley State Prison in California.“Shaken awake by history, Ben Bloch makes poetry out of his dreams, hereness and distance, simplicity born in beautiful complications. His wild and tame poetry is very well-informed by suffering—his and others’. He may not carry the day for humanity, but he carries its flag. A close reader will accompany the poet down a road that narrows, coming closer and closer to the truth.”