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And yet Horology is a new poetry made new again.--Shane McCrae.
And yet Horology is also a welcoming book.
In HOROLOGY
Gromadzki makes his own world; and it is a world shaped by an attention to the word more focused than any other I know in contemporary poetry.
Imagine Verlaine transcribing lyrics for an opera drawn from a Burtonian study of seafaring and clocks: \'a chanticleer of fo\'c\'sle songs\' indeed.--Martin Corless-Smith Derek Gromadzki \'s Horology marks a significant advance from his first book
Pilgrimage Suites; which itself; more completely than most debuts; announced a poet already making his own sound.
The clock and the poem are as close as we have come to making parts cohere into a living organism.
As you look at the collected bones and feathers in this Kunstkammer; suddenly it wriggles free; not a shipwreck; not an archive; but a living creature.
Words are strung like trade beads carrying faint signs of meaning along with their chief task of beauty; a miraculous conjuration of song.
Horology teeters on the brink; \'faience\' and \'plumbago\' float to the surface like literary flotsam but the vessel is never quite sunk.
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