EYE OF THE SPIRAL - FINE COLOR

Like Walt Whitman, James Grabill contains multitudes. I envision him clothed in satellite pictures of a benign, multi-climate reserve where every living being shows up, unconsciously blossoming our language, imaginations and hearts. "The brain loves its many animals." The poems in Out of Unfathomable Time are rivers that various beings, events and emotions keep breaking the surface of, rivers that are circular webs pulsing with jazz. So much beauty and wonder here. - Dan Raphael, poet, performer, editor and reading host, author of 20 volumes of poetry including forthcoming Manything (Fall '19) James Grabill has always been at the forefront of ecologically concerned poets, finding the information we need, and speaking as a steward for the natural world. In "Living with the Stern Review" he says, "Even a gnat's dust plants a seed and takes back life." And then he warns us: "What our ancestors believed was endless has come circling back around us." - Allan Cooper, editor of poetry magazine Germination; author of Gabriel's Wing and other books of poetry; composer and performer in the band Rosedale