remanence

Boyer Rickel Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-075-5 (paperback, $12.00); 978-1-60235-076-2 (PDF, $9.99) © 2008 by Parlor Press, 76 pages Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. Interviews Read the Interview with Boyer Rickel on remanence at Christopher Nelson's Poetry Blog. What People Are Saying As Ron Silliman has written, “Attention is all.” The poems in remanence are supremely attentive to the world—or rather to the traces it leaves in our brains. They also make a study of misperception and error. This is a form of meditation. Much of the book is composed of five-line poems, each long line a semi-separate thought, a probe. Each a kind of echolocation. Gently, insistently, they bring us news of our position.  —Rae Armantrout  Boyer Rickel’s titles read like names of constellations Leonardo’s man might have inscribed inside his magic circle, each poem mapping points from sources near