J.W. MARSHALL
Thursday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m.

We welcome our bookselling friend J.W. "John" Marshall back this evening to read from his new, award-winning first full-sized poetry collection, Meaning a Cloud (Oberlin College Press). The co-proprietor, with poet Christine Deavel, of Open Books: A Poetry Emporium, he received the 2007 FIELD Poetry Prize for this marvelous book. "In J.W. Marshall's deceptively neighborly company, we find ourselves, again and again, privileged to moments of essential vision, where the world hare been pared to its peculiar fundamentals ... Watchful, ruefully comic, alight with playful lyric precision and a plainspoken rhetorical elegance, Meaning a Cloud is not only a record of one's body recovery from injury, but a rendering of the mind's companion journey: pained, stubbornly amused, at last arriving at a state of visionary completion. It is a sorrowing, hopeful book, all of a crucial, embracing piece." - Susan Hutton.

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