C.S. Giscombe - PRAIRIE STYLE

I have long wished that there could be some press that would do for poetry what Dalkey Archive has done for modern and postmodern fiction.  In rare moments, it occurs to Dalkey Archive to do that itself, witness their publication of C. S. Giscombe.  The new book, Prairie Style, is out now, available at a nice discount from Dalkey by clicking here. For that matter, look into Cecil's earlier books, including Here.

And here is a prairie excerpt.

Afro-Prairie

Tempting for the voice to locate its noise, to speak of or from. Everybody wants to be the singer but here’s the continent.

Fielding the question, Do you like good music?

Open love. In a recurring dream about the prairie, a thin hedge–along some railroad embankment--in which there’s a gap to step through again and again, for me to step through, out onto the view itself. Not the literary ballad, articulated, but onto the continent.

[By the way, the answer to Arthur Conley's question, cited in Cecil's poem above, is "Yeah, Yeah."]