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Numbers and Tempers. Selected Early Poems 1966-1986

Ray DiPalma

Digital Only

A Sun & Moon title.

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Part of 50: A Celebration of Sun & Moon Classics

With an impressive oeuvre of more than 25 books of poetry—Planh, Observatory Gardens, January Zero, Cuiva Sails, and the renowned collaboration Legend among them—Ray DiPalma has built an amazing poetic edifice.

The first comprehensive survey of DiPalma’s writing, Numbers and Tempers: Selected Early Poems 1966-1986 presents a selection of his best work, and shows the fascinating trajectory his poetics has followed over these two decades. DiPalma’s poetry is a carefully chiseled creation of experience that is at once aural, tactile, and visual. He composes with what Jackson Mac Low has described as “Precision and surprise and no nonessentials. Gists and Piths.”

DiPalma’s language creates, always, a landscape of the familiar at the edge of being; in his poetry each chair, table, and bed is revealed as an animate force filled with potentiality of our imaginations, of our perceiving.

Ray DiPalma lived in New York City, where he edited the magazine Hot Bird. His recent books are The Jukebox of Memnon and Mock Fandango, a 20 Pages chapbook published by Sun & Moon Press.