Some publishers' hype is too good to overlook, such as this description of Jim Christy's Marimba Forever (Guernica $20). "The poetry in Marimba Forever is concerned with love and longing. . . . Many of the poems can be regarded as small films: nourish, action, farce or slapstick; others call music to mind: a tenor saxophone improvising on a standard melody in the wee small hours just as the milk man is getting up and rubbing sleep from his eyes; a roadhouse honky-tonk hell-raiser; six gypsies with accordions and tubas on the back of a flatbed truck somewhere near Ploestki or a marimba orchestra in a tropical town square playing like they never want to stop while palm trees sway and lovers neck on the green benches.";

978-1-55071-316-9

[BCBW 2010]