Anabranch

Wisconsin Bookwatch, Oct, 2004

Anabranch

Andrew Zawacki

Wesleyan University Press

215 Long Lane, Middletown, CT 06459

www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

0819567019 $13.95 1-800-421-1561

Also available in a hardcover edition (0819567000, $28.00), Anabranch is a compilation of author, editor, anthologist, and poet Andrew Sawacki and persuasively documents his standing as a gifted wordsmith with a talent for imaginative linguistic expression. Vertigo: If wind that wastes its time among the trees/escapes itself, only to end up quarantined/by a derelict squall from the north,//and if the air turns somersaults, miming/the outtakes of dusk, scandaled by an early frost/and punished for its coldness by the cold--//then, like a bullet that lodges in bone,/becoming a piece of the body,/you will not awake apart from your name.//And I will not be not a part of you.