Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. In his seminal anthology, The New American Poetry 1945-1960, Donald Allen issued a challenge to poets of the future. Joseph Karasek accepts that challenge. Writing in the tradition of Olson and Duncan, he manifests a lyric consciousness poised on the edge between beauty and terror. LOVE AND TEN THOUSAND THINGS is a masterpiece--Michael Wurster. LOVE AND TEN THOUSAND THINGS is a book full of edges and urgency, the poems slipping gracefully among their many modes of discourse: cautionary wisdom, intimate muttering, incantation, and awe. Things are some things half-said but never half-felt in these poems which bring to mind both the fullness of John Ashbery's world and the simplicity of Li Po's--Gail Wronsky.
