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What is Walk Around : Essays on Poetry and Place about?

Reading David Blairs book of essays is like taking a walk with a smart, well-read friend and before you know it, youve learned an enormous amount about a wide range of topics: Ella Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, and Toma alamun, with references to Welcome Back, Kotter, and Cosmo Topper along the way. In prose that is frank and intimate, Blair brings his world to life, in a way that is at once both literary and street-wisethe description of the worst poetry reading of all time is worth the price of admission alonealways keeping the reader in the presence of flesh and blood. In the first essay in this wonderful book, David Blair says that as you walk, you become intensely aware in two directionsto the outer world and into your own headspace. Also that while walking, you do what writers need to do: you get out of your own way. Blairs essays are just like that. Theyre so fresh because they are, as he writes of Seamus Heaney, the opposite of self-impressed. His own intense awareness extends in multiple directions. And as his thoughts stroll in and out of focus in these relaxed, funny, improvised pieces, were with him every step, blended, as he writes, in kinship. Sebastian Smee

Author

David Blair

Publisher

Mad Hat Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9786976599564