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9.95 Praise for Elush ln these rich and highly charged poems the reoder feeis token to o great fieight where the selfbecornes lorge ond Eorth smoll. Poems offshes tow- en forests prots the sky the seo. Everything is rocing speeding folling througlt distonce tlme ond spoce through possion ond meditotive silence. And yet hroughout oll the single voice the low ond ordinoty humon voice- the fother the child. -Carblyn Chute 7 lsBN 0-91t342-t7-7 I On Undertow GOOD SIUFF rnsphing-mokes one rethink ones own Moine ond other moments aptt rhythmicolly beoutifully. -fanwillem van de WCtering Colin Sargents poety is teffific orL He can embroce you with warm l. brb6 r r sionistic detoil and in the next breoth stun you with slashes of brilliant color. He is unofroid to hond you o colleaon of priceless portrorts of fomi of lovers of deported friends ond suddenly set those pictures oflame. He might come ot you with o ftstful of feor as in the poerns Dark Bag How did we get here ond Cactus your sensible life skidded to o qrgsh . Or cony you into o cromped interioi ond somehow hold you there os in Corvette swimming on an empty bed for your entireyoutirr. He tokes anger ond despoir ond futility on o holidoy stirs them into chowder in the. . poem Coat of Arms. ln News he sketches the deoth of o speeder with o perspectiye so right you o19 both over the scehe ond sinking under the sur- foce of the woter-left hanging onto one stonge word for deor life. Ihese poems ore the primitive pointlngs of an Americon ortisg the ones he refused to sell the wild ond personol works thot leod us to o new under stonding .. . J Sorgent is bold ond ullmotely dongerous becouse he mokes you porticipote i points bock to the poem to creation itsefond soyq You sow that didnt yod You were olive just now right...And you find yourselfsaying Yes but where om l Nghtnow. tlx t trllstrn -Dan Domench . i r.f rti . .. d -u_-.J- z .-_ . Jrr Yr l -- f t --1---randnsi S I Wilhel -d rt.. r - rrdt alrt 1r ll a-. t r. i Born in 1954 in Ponland Maine Colin Sargent grew up boating off the coast of Kennebunk Beach and among the lsles of Shoals and was a na- tionally ranked decathlete in high school and at Annapolis. As a Navp . pilot he flew helicopters over France Spain ltaly Africa and the Indian Ocean. He has been editor of the Navys Approoch Ma_gazirre is listed in f nteravias Whot Who in Aviation Aerospoce andis3urrently founding editor and publisher of Portlond Maines City Magazine estab- lished 1985. He has been a feature reader on PBS Raiiio Pacifica atthq . StoneCoast Writers Conference in Maine. and the Writers Cnr in 1- Washington D.C. A 1994 Maine Touring Anis he is the author of two other books of poetry Luftwoffe Snowshoes and Eluihrfundeft tn part with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. . t- .. Irf. - t l Y. F .rt ... 1 ..ltt t . r t . . r I tt t -_ attr -ars i.. r-l r h 1 . Itl r rt Llet r P t. . e r-el Souvetoyo 54 265 3 25E the most remote location on earth. Cover painting by M. D. Ryus