Who Opens
by Jesse Seldess

Available from Kenning Editions

"In Jesse Seldess' poetry, words require a certain elasticity to perform an attentive music of formation. The manner in which phrasal units arrive, depart and recombine creates a movement like a flock of birds making a wide turn--there is a harmony of every shifting participants. The "who" of Who Opens is a similarly mobile designation--it is "who you have continually overhead" and what is itself being overheard. With great compassion and precision, this book returns language to the habitat of sound from which poetry has been away far too long." - Kerri Sonnenberg