Into Night’s Tent by Stephen Frech

$9.00

24 in stock

SKU: INT1120-1 Category:

Description

1st printing of 200 numbered copies, Boxcar Press Flurry Cotton cover and text stock:
30 copies with inset sheet of handmade mulberry paper, sewn bindings, waxed linen thread--SOLD OUT
70 copies with inset sheet of vellum, sewn bindings, waxed linen thread--SOLD OUT
100 copies sewn bindings, waxed linen thread

 

Cover image: Osen Eloping with Her Lover
Harunobu (1724-1770)
Adachi reprint

 

Printed by the illustrious professionals at Boxcar Press in Syracuse, NY. With thanks to David Art Supply of Metairie, LA, for the handmade paper that provided inset sheets for the first 30 copies. Assembled with care and admiration by Kimberly and Marley on our dinner table at home.

 

Praise for Into Night’s Tent

 

From the form and formlessness of the river to the slippery passages of memory to the brilliant sequence where sleep too becomes rivered, Stephen Frech’s lyric poems dwell in the threshold between realms where we lose ourselves and dissolve into elegant chaos. Perhaps we most often come to poetry because we seek to be lifted across the borders of wonder. Into Night’s Tent is a brief and potent carriage into the other-world, where the body is made strange and new by its permeability, “a skin boat sailing toward luck.”
—Jennifer Sweeney

 

Into Night’s Tent is a haunting world of dimly lit dreamscapes—in photographs, pools of water, little unseen ravines. It’s a world where every little detail carries its darker twin within: the effortless gallop of horses becomes an enormous lifting, the safe harbor of sleep is also an insatiable longing for torpor. Even a body breaking into bloom is at once a promise and a crisis. These poems are terrifying, but beautiful and necessary. In time, Frech assures us “the shattered pieces of light / reassemble on the current,” but not without slowing down a restless self that is always reflecting back. Into Night’s Tent reminds us of the immense work necessary to recognize the moment for what we so often miss: “the great and small gestures of being here.”
—Nils Michals

 

 

 

 

Additional information

Weight 2 oz
Dimensions 5.5 × 8.5 in