The Moveable Ones

by John Sakkis

chapbook

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

John Sakkis is a poet. His books include Mirror Magic (Roof Books), Nike+ (BOTH BOTH Books), Psychopomp (BOTH BOTH Books), RAVE ON! (BOTH BOTH Books), The Islands (Nightboat Books), and Rude Girl (BlazeVOX Books), as well as numerous chapbooks and ephemera. From 2005-2015 he edited BOTH BOTH, a little magazine of poetry. With Angelos Sakkis, he has translated five books by Athenian poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis: Y’es and Diaeresis (Dusie Press), “now, 1/3” and thepoem (BlazeVOX Books), Writing Dimensions (Green Integer), Chinese Notebook (Ugly Duckling Presse), and Maribor (The Post-Apollo Press), which was awarded the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. He was born and raised and lives in the East Bay Area.

Reviews

[MKMKMK · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fucking great book. I hadn't read anything from John in a while and I was really stricken with poetry boners. The poems have all sorts of nasty edibles and are quite elusive. They make me think of the way Anselm Hollo talks about John Ashbery. The poems almost make you think they are "about" something or contain some sort of meaning, but really there is refreshingly no reasonable logic. Relationships between words and events and I don't know what the fuck is going on. I'm not missing anything am I? Is this about some Greek war or something? I hope not, if so I apologize.

[Logan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I published this. FIVE STARS!!!