The Steel Veil

"Marshall's canvases, expansive as Jackson Pollock paintings, comprehend every thing from string beans to string theory."-PoetrySoulfully introspective and viscerally engaged, Jack Marshall's poetry weds timely depictions of Middle Eastern widows "behind veils heavy / as the steel / veil of empire" with timeless expressions of personal grief and political outrage. Invoking visionary possibilities of being while "riding unsteadily on the rails / of rhyme," Marshall's distinctive voice and elegant lyrics unite this muscled, multilayered collection.Born in 1936 to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Jack Marshall grew up in New York and now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several award-winning poetry collections.

Dimming	p. 13
While I Dismantle the House, Poetry Goes Packing	p. 15
What I'm Doing Here	p. 17
Pull	p. 18
Apologies to the Spider	p. 20
In This Ring of Boundless Ripples	p. 22
Courtesy	p. 25
Predator of Perception	p. 26
Another Way	p. 28
Briefest Blossom	p. 29
Layers	p. 31
Mint	p. 33
"Close to God"	p. 37
Civility	p. 38
Up in the Air	p. 40
Late Prescription	p. 42
Harvest Moon, Hunter's Moon	p. 44
Requiem for Renee	p. 46
The Face of the Dying	p. 48
Wandering Moorings	p. 50
Convergence	p. 52
A Glow	p. 55
Chance Encounter	p. 56
Heedlessly Greedy	p. 57
Wailing Wall	p. 59
Old Man	p. 61
On the Perch	p. 63
Over	p. 65
To My Friend	p. 67
The Gouldberg Variations	p. 68
Waving to Normal	p. 73
Then as Now	p. 76
The Ground Running	p. 78
The Steel Veil	p. 81
Moneytheism	p. 84
Weather Report: Baghdad Burning	p. 86
Archeology	p. 89
Villanelle	p. 90
Smoking Gun	p. 91
Sentence	p. 93
A Valentine	p. 95
H.Q. - Q & A	p. 96
Everglades	p. 99
An Appointment	p. 101
Someone's Dream	p. 102
Scent	p. 103
Annals of the Mute	p. 104
Rose in Scorpio	p. 105
Hymn	p. 109
Unhinged	p. 111
Sickbed Redux	p. 113
The Buddha Sends His Regrets	p. 115
Sunny Days	p. 117
Fallback Time	p. 120
To the Orpheus of the Awful	p. 122
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