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Poetry. California Interest. Dane Cervine's THE WORLD IS GOD'S LANGUAGE is rich with both wit and wisdom. His paired prose poems are like snapshots, each one revealing an unexpected insight. The poet's perception of each moment's synchronistic interaction with eternal themes reflects his grounding in the Beat tradition as well as Buddhist precepts. Sometimes sexy and irreverent, always deeply philosophical, these poems are steeped in the place and the culture of Northern California while ranging the world from Japan to Bali, Indonesia to India, Central America to the American South. As we travel with him, Cervine's capacious awareness subtly illuminates every experience. Generous and humane, the work in this collection reminds the reader that poetry can be both joyous and profound. "If we imagine the world as a flipbook, each pageeach momentmerging into coherence as it flutters through time, it can be discomfiting to try and apprehend a single, discrete moment frozen in the cascade. That is why Dane Cervine's poems often create a sense of vertigo as the reader is lifted out of the surge of a fractious reality and given an opportunity to contemplate distinct moments isolated from th

Author

Dane Cervine

Publisher

San Francisco, CA: Sixteen Rivers Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781939639264

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities