Thursday, May 15, 2008

Rarer and More Wonderful is nearly here...




Today I spoke with my publisher and was happy to learn that my first collection of poetry, Rarer and More Wonderful is nearly
done: the cover is complete thanks to the magic of Chris Lane and the final proof is in the mail. We expect the book to be out and into the world at the end of this month!

In support of it, I'll be reading with Eleanor Bayne Johnson at Pegasus in Downtown Berkeley on Friday June 6th, and again on June 14th in Denver at Noah Eli Gordon's.

Blurbs

"Things / hidden remain alive." Like—-and with—-Jack Spicer before him, Trevor Calvert helps us to celebrate this notion by bringing light to the lives of hidden things—-answers, insects, music, the heart—-without ridding them of the veils, the walls, or the hidey-holes to which we're initially drawn. Rarer and More Wonderful is aptly named.

Graham Foust

Rarer and More Wonderful are the attachments, the combinations, of these poems. Here, language, carved and specific, secures one figure to the next, to its double, or is that a ghost? Perhaps both. And then what appears in the negative space of what happens: "none of these things / will act as the thing itself that / is soon ending." So there is a serious struggle here with experience, with being, and then when you least expect it comes the debonair turn, like getting away with wearing period hats. The period? Well, there's no closure, either. Of its moment.

Stephanie Young

6 comments:

Sky Jack Morgan said...

I am so going to buy this book

Jenny Drai said...

Kickass cover. I'm sure all the innards will kick ass as well.

Trevor said...

Aw thanks you two!

Jenny Drai said...

When *exactly* is the book coming out? I went to Diesel last night looking for it but couldn't find it.

Sky Jack Morgan said...

Yes. I went to Diesel last night, too, and felt stupid for having traveled so far and given up so very much to have made such an effort only to be jilted.

Trevor said...

Hey you two! Thank you so much for coming by Diesel...and my apologies that it is not yet here...

It available online from Scrambler Books, now, but won't be ready at Diesel until Thursday evening sometime...