Crosstown

Status: Available

Page Count: 84

Edition: First

ISBN: 978-1-59092-708-3

SRP (USD): $10.99

Size: 5.5x8.5 trade paperback

Cover: Jason Roush

Genre(s): Poetry

Homepage: Jason Roush

From its opening invocation of the legendary traveling bluesman Robert Johnson standing at the crossroads, Jason Roush's third volume of poetry, Crosstown, is concerned with intersections of various kinds, both literal and metaphorical. Cities like Boston and Provincetown, New York and London--familiar to readers of Roush's two previous poetry collections--are all present here, though Crosstown focuses equally on mapping an interior terrain: the crossroads of mystery and destiny, experience and possibility.

"Jason Roush has a brilliant command of the line and an almost pointillist way of combining exact, exquisite phrases into sweeping vistas. At once tender and humane, the poems in Crosstown display a rare intelligence and character. The collection is not only well-written, but well-told--the voice is sly and warm, and the whole book is good company." --John Skoyles, author of The Situation

PRAISE FOR AFTER HOURS

"Meticulous, candid, poised, this outstanding first book has the passion and cool of art. Jason Roush is a striking, genuine new talent and After Hours is a wonderful read." --Robert Pinsky, author of Gulf Music

PRAISE FOR BREEZEWAY

"In these spare and lyrical poems, Jason Roush writes, like the great Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, about the ordinary, passing moments of our lives, which are 'suspended / over the swift water of years // that cannot last or happen again.' These poems--at once so wry and conversational, so ardent and precise and unafraid of feeling--remind us in their beauty that we are all living in the 'breezeway of time,' in that long, open passage between all that seems lost and all that still remains." --Richard McCann, author of Mother of Sorrows

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