A wonderful gang of talkative alter egos meets the ego in a cosmic
expatriate bar and the ego tells their story, which is the intriguing
inner and outer story of the poet Alan Botsford himself.
--Sarah Arvio, author of Cry Back My Sea: 48 Poems in 6 Waves
In these poems of self and world, an American abroad, living in
Japan, with a copy of Walt Whitman under his arm, sets out on the open
road of the imagination, absorbing and transcending cultural
constructions of that very self and world, ventriloquizing voices that
speak back frequently at and to the author, as they embody multitudes,
exemplifying the interconnectedness and contingency of identity,
language, place, and emotion. Borderlines offers a new vision, looking
both ways, inward and outward, ahead and behind, crossing borders, in
an embrace centered ultimately in love.
—Michael Sowder, author of Sacred Letters: Sanskrit, Yoga, and
Awakening the Divine |
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Alan Botsford is author of three poetry collections--mamaist: learning a new language (Minato no Hito) which, as the Kyoto Journal wrote, “may be one of the first books of poems to transpire from our global civilization”; A Book of Shadows (Katydid Press) with William I. Elliott; and mamaist: a different sort of light (dark woods press). He has also published the hybrid essay-dialogue-poetry collection Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore (Sage Hill Press), about which American poet and critic William Heyen wrote, “If we'll read this book as it was written, with Emerson's 'flower of the mind,' it will enlarge our lives.” Born in Connecticut and educated at Wesleyan University and Columbia University, and formerly editor of Poetry Kanto, he currently is a professor of American literature at Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan, is a book reviewer for Kyoto Journal, and lives with his wife, illustrator Minako Saitoh, in the historic seaside town Kamakura.
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