Podiums: Autobiographical Cafe Fictions

by Peter Ganick

Cross-genre. "Postmodern meets postclassic in Peter Ganick's latest poetic triumph; his 'podiums' and his 'atriums' recall a static Rome as much as they do a moving Derrida. Podiums are low walls separating the seats from the arena in a Roman theater yet without ever hiding the show, atriums are the centers of Roman houses acting as both containers and conduits. So it is with the trace and ousia; we have our meanings and we suffer their loss, too, for we have slid, in this age, down that slippery slope from the 'standing in atriums forming opinions on a bright sunny day' and I, too, am urged, as is he, to learn how to 'kill or kiss lambs in the atrium of ashheaps.' To sonnet or not to sonnet, that is the Xando. Read this book, stay tuned and be filled with hope, for, 'eventually we align'"— J. Jayes Hurley.

328 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2001