Helplessness

by Brian Teare

Limited edition chapbook. Woodblock printed covers. Handsewn. The third title from Goodmorning Menagerie, a micropress run out of Boise, ID by the fabulous Genna Kohlhardt and Julie Strand.

Paperback

First published October 1, 2012

About the author

A former National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the Pew Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fund for Poetry, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. He is the author of The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda-award winning Pleasure, the Kingsley Tufts finalist Companion Grasses, The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and National Book Award longlisted Doomstead Days. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he is an Associate Professor at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm fascinated by the way Teare combines meditations on illness with study and reflection on the writings of Agnes Martin. The threads dovetail very effectively.

Consider:

"the colors rhume

softly and I think, I'll miss this when I die. This is how I enter appearances"


And:

"but pain is more
the way fire is


an animal
in its several colors
so at home?