Eureka Slough
by Joseph Massey
5x7, 28 pages
saddle-stitched
no isbn
*OUT OF PRINT*
printed in an edition of 275
April, 2005
Joseph Massey's poems are some of my favorite places to go, "given to green / and clear-cut patches." His silent engine is always sure to bring me through "What's left of the dream" and the "Page / as white / as the sun." I must remember to thank him for his constant reminder of these and other pleasures.
- CA Conrad
In the lyric carpentry of _Eureka Slough_, a startling vision of nature and rain gets hammered into being. Massey uses words to hone down the world til we can see it with fresh eyes, and for fresh eyes—with concision and precision both. His poetry’s more complex than he lets on, just like the California it celebrates.
- Kevin Killian
Joseph Massey's essentialized, intelligent poems take us into the present, vibrant moment. His spare language is memorable as it fashions an immediacy out of a life with a quiet and consistent musical line. As does the world, "You awake / within the poem.
-Burt Kimmelman