The Line extends in a series of interlocking prose poems, creating a strobe-like effect of intensely imagined moments shifting between sleeping and waking.  Sharp, satirical, lush, or clear, the narrative voice twists through, seeking a line through time to braid its selves together.  Moxley's intrepid language tosses us into the swim--into a bracing intimacy with the writing consciousness.  

These prose poems tell the story of sleeping and waking, of this very bout of writing, of the search for the line of time and the poet's immortality.  The Line feels like a classic already, with its just words and its images "suggested by sound and experience."  It is a poetics but also a real, readable  tale.
                    —Alice Notley  

We're in the state between sleep and waking, where consciousness resists the tasks of reason and routine but instead views, from the perspective of darkness, the whole span from newborn promise to the old mammals’ erosion of muscle.  Moxley's usual keen intelligence here comes with an oneiric fluidity as it hunts through the perplexities of life for THE LINE from past to future, the line for words to form and, implicitly, the ideal line of verse these prose poems play against with their amazing leaps, sly humor, and complex inference.  You'll wish the morning sun would not win out, the book not come to its end
                    —Rosmarie Waldrop  

Jennifer Moxley is the author of Imagination Verses (Salt, 2003), The Sense Record and other poems (Salt, 2003), and Often Capital (Flood Editions, 2005).  She has translated two works by Jacqueline Risset, The Translation Begins and Sleep's Powers.  She currently teaches at the University of Maine in Orono.

Simone Fattal founded Post-Apollo Press in Sausalito in 1982 in order to publish the English translation of "Sitt Marie-Rose", a feminist novel on the Lebanese Civil War by Etel Adnan, a prominent poet, painter, and essayist who was born in Beirut and briefly studied at UC Berkeley in the 1950s. The book was a best seller in Europe and is now considered a classic of Middle Eastern literature.

Simone, a painter, sculptor and translator who was born in Syria and lived in Lebanon until the Civil War, recalls that the idea of publishing "came very naturally, very spontaneously to me. Was it the freedom of the times? The exciting idea that one could do just anything?" She also wanted to introduce major foreign poets and writers to the US. The name of the press refers to the Apollo space program that sent men to the moon and opened a new age and a "new dimension to our imagination."

Post-Apollo publishes literary fiction, poetry and plays and includes among its authors internationally known poets Etel Adnan and Anne-Marie Albiach and novelists Marguerite Duras and Ulla Berkewicz. The press archives are located in the Bancroft Library.

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