Salute

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Gee these poems be limber, you think, flipping thru the pages, admiring, here, the cut of this poem's jib, there the poise & rancour of another.

For this is a book that might save your heart, a book to pull from your jacket pocket at some moment of last judgement & wave at the gate keeper, a tall and bearded dude, surely a hipster avant la lettre but also after it outside of time in fact, where final judgements are, and truth and poetry. You wave it at him. It's a talisman, dude, you say. 'An earnest,' says the figure, 'of your capacity for cool and rigour' He nods and you smile. You both smile and he waves you in.

Praise for Ken Bolton:

'...bitchy, dreamy, acute...a deeply serious & witty & almost self-canceling consciousness at work' Lyn McCredden, Heat

'Easy to appreciate, lightheartedness is not a natural or easy gift, and Bolton's brilliantly articulate shimmers with a sense of being 'amusing & sort of/ Crooked in relation to things' Nicholas Birns, Transnational Literature