Wednesday, December 19, 2007

The Weight of Addition


Yesterday I received my contributor's copy of The Weight of Addition, an anthology of Texas Poetry, edited by Randall Watson and published by Mutabilis Press. The anthology includes the work of 118 poets with Texas connections including Adam Zagajewski, Susan Wood, Ed Hirsch, Naomi Shihab Nye, Tony Hoagland, Sandra Cisneros, Robert Phillips and Cynthia Macdonald. Two of my poems are included.

This from the website:
Randy writes in his introduction, "It is my intention, then that the title, The Weight of Addition, should suggest the depth and range of the work that appears here." He goes on to conclude, " . . . --we have the poems themselves: each a sign and a revelation of our uncommon lives . . . each an artifact of the spirit, of the inner life with its mass and fluidity, . . . each an addition and a weight--humane and troubled and hopeful and necessary--a mirror in which we might discover not just those things that distinguish us, but those that identify us, that connect us, individually, in what might be called our mutuality, our belonging."

The cover photo was taken by Frank White, who shot the fabulous photos ars graphica used in the cities stores campaigns we produced for a few years before cities was no more.

I'm looking forward to making my way through the volume, recalling again what I took with me and what I left behind.

3 comments:

jenni said...

Congratulations! I will treat myself to this book after the holy-days.

I love the cover.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Allison. I look forward to hearing you read again, maybe the two poems in the book will be included?

Also I wanted to tell you how much I enjoy reading your blog entries and seeing what you see in your photographs. Quiet, watchful and terrific!

allison said...

Thanks, you guys!

And Chris, thanks for reading...it's always nice to get feedback :)