Jay Bartell Reads His New Book At Rust Belt Books
by Aaron Lowinger
Jaye Bartell, the ambidextrously inclined poet/songman, will be celebrating the release of a new chapbook, Ever After Never Under. The chapbook, another quality Little Scratch Pad Edition, is a collection of 20 so-called choruses—tight, 12-lined poems meandering between memory, desire, and the emotion stirred while staring at an icicle and waiting for it to melt in a dream.
An example:
Chorus 16
In the town where I lived
we the citizens went into
old buildings and hugged
each other while water boiled.
There was a central plaza
where we the citizens would stand
holding placards that read “NO”
and “YES” and “MAYBE.”
The problem with roads is they have no
river under them to fall into and people
age without me in proximity to ignore it.
I’ll always wish I could paint pictures.
Jaye Bartell reads his new work on Friday, August 29 at 7pm, at Rust Belt Books, 202 Allen Street (885-9535).
—aaron lowinger
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