Stone Postcard
John Leonard Press, $24.99 pb, 60 pp
Poetry
Stone Postcard by Paul Magee
by Sam Zifchak •
In ‘Painting’s Flatness’, Paul Magee ruefully observes the following: ‘If only surfaces were possible / here in the imagination / just to walk and to touch sincerely the ground.’ This, as the title of the poetry collection suggests, is the essence of Stone Postcard: a poet’s search for stability in the face of exquisite and inscrutable change.
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