Dream Flow
Poems by David Jaffin 
Exeter: Shearsman, 2006
ISBN 1-90570-014-8
312 pp., US$15.00 paperback 

Dream Flow is a substantial collection of David Jaffin’s work–this time with a wonderful watercolor by Charles Selinger brightening up the cover. As any reader of this blog knows by now, I’m a fan of Jaffin’s miniature songs and recommend this book highly. At 311 pages, it’s an inexhaustable well in which one can gaze and dip at one’s liesure, bringing the reflective waters to the lips and trying out songs like these:

Lake reed

s
with the

watering
tiouch of

bird’s wing
ed from re

lease.

[Accent grave above the ed of winged.]

Moon-sensed

Are these

palms’ wake
in the night

Brushed by
the darkness

es of wind’
s flowing

in for dis
tant waves

moon-sensed.

To say these poems reveals the extent of the intricate word-play and the shimmer of meanings. And the more one sees and says the more the subtle gifts keep coming! Available from Shearsman Books or from Small Press Distribution. We hope to feature David Jaffin on Ahadada Radio in the very near future.

Jesse Glass grew up on a horse farm near Westminster, Maryland. He currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. His plays, poems, performance works, and fiction have appeared in a wide variety of journals and anthologies

In addition to his work as Publisher of Ahadada Books, Jesse Glass is a professor of Literature and History in the Graduate and Undergraduate programs at Meikai (Bright Sea) University in Chiba, Japan. Look for Glass' work on UbuWeb, in the film 'Faites vos Jeux' by Filgruppe Chaos, in 'Visiting Walt' from the University of Iowa Press, and in scads of literary magazines and websites devoted to the "sweet science."