
March Book
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Called "A young genius" by the Chicago Tribune, Jesse Ball has won acclaim for his novels and poetry combining skillful attention to form with a deeply resonant humanity. That same mastery of craft and vision are on display in his first published volume of poetry, March Book. With perfect line breaks, tenderly selected words, and inventive pairings, Ball leads us through his fantastic world.
In five separate sections we meet beekeepers and parsons, a young woman named Anna in a thin linen dress, and an old scribe transferring the eponymous March Book. We witness a Willy Loman-esque worker who "ran out in the noon street / shirt sleeves rolled, and hurried after / that which might have passed" only to be told that there's nothing between him and "the suddenness of age." While these images achingly inform us of our delicate place in the physical world, others remind us why we still yearn to awake in it every day and "make pillows with the down / of stolen geese," "build / rooms in terms of the hours of the day."
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Jesse Ball is the author of fifteen books, and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a winner of The Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Burn Prize, and was long-listed for the National Book Award.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Richard Howard
- 1
- Above a Street
- Self-Portrait as Brueghel's Beekeepers
- Inside the Stove
- After a Death
- Listing of Possessions, Meanings
- No. 31, Conflict with a God
- Diplomacy
- Cedar Hill
- Cares
- A Speech
- Remarks on the Plausible
- Naming
- A Digression
- The March Book
- 2
- Anna's Song
- The General
- An Etching
- Rules
- Voice
- This Also
- Measures
- At a Crossing
- At Dusk
- Poverty Study
- Passage
- St. Stephen's Day
- Secret History of Jacques Rennard
- House of the Old Doctor
- 3 Manuman Notebook
- 4
- Description
- Further Usages
- For Once the Libertines Do What's Best for Themselves
- INTERLUDE: A Wager
- Parable of the Witness
- Lester, Burma
- In Part
- Untitled
- Ship's Manifest
- From a Clearing
- March Hour
- Diagram
- Instructions
- In Veils
- A Tale
- Problems of Warfare
- The Principal Avenue
- Prairie Hermitage
- 5 Several Replies in a Numbered Column
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
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