David Giannini

Rim / Wave David Giannini

Poetry. Art. Woodcuts by Franklin Feldman. Rim is a man who works and thinks mainly with his body, a thinking farmhand, someone who labors physically and sees through things to a deeper level or core at times making spiritual sense also. RIM is a story, a prosepoem, and a metaphysical investigation as one occasion. The sense of poetry in the prose comes through both constant juxtaposition of images and rhythmic qualities created through line-breaks and word-savorings. RIM breaks down usual notions of inside/outside, linear/non-linear, and creates a way of felling human place in a larger animate continuum. This book is one of storied life and of collage. Each part of the story is interrupted or disrupted by sudden insertions of words (in boldface) from the separate books and authors listed in the Glossolalia (a pun on Glossary) to effect a speaking in tongues throughout the work. This book asks the reader to follow a story and simultaneously allow insistent voices to break in. Any presumed parallels to the disease of schizophrenia should be immediately thrown out. This volume also includes the first publication of To the Wave, Poetry at Seacoasts, a complete book in honor of ocean and what sense of things the author has found on and around various coastal beaches in the United States, including experiences of things both easily observed and not readily seen. It is a lyrical, metaphysical and loving exploration made of notes, aphorisms, collages, poems and prosepoem sections building (as waves do) toward final destinations. The title also indicates a way of bowing to the wave that is the next and the next physical presence within great ocean, but also to the wave that is the ultimate, imagined, engulfing totality anyone may feel and find.