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Gunsight
One of 500 signed and numbered copies bound in the publisher's original black cloth over boards, white spine label stamped in black. Dust jacket is rubbed at the edges with small chips at the extremities. Signed by the author on the limitations page.
Hardcover
Published January 1, 1962
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April 15, 2021
Gunsight is a striking long poem in the form of a hallucinatory fantasy narrative. Three voices jostle with each other, dancing through memories, confabulations and free imagery, charting the mind of a soldier as he undergoes surgery for a war wound. It took the back of the book for me to know that bit if framing info, and at times the poem is too abstract for its own good, the narrative spreading thin under the weight of Weiss's aesthetic labors, especially at the end. Even with that weakness the poem is an impressive attempt at dramatic long verse and shows Theodore Weiss as a poet who was as ambitious as he was skilled.
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