poetry by Trevor Calvert
Price: $13.00
6"x 9" Paperback book
78 pages ©2008
ISBN: 978-0-6152-1398-2
Cover design by Chris Lane
***This book was a finalist in the poetry catagory for the 2009 NCIBA
(Northern California Independent Booksellers Association) Book of the Year.
Also find this book at following independent bookstores:
Oakland, CA- Diesel, a bookstore
Praise for Rarer and More Wonderful
"[T]hings / hidden remain alive." Like—and with—Jack Spicer before him, Trevor Calvert helps us to celebrate this notion by bringing light to the lives of hidden things—answers, insects, music, the heart—without ridding them of the veils, the walls, or the hidey-holes
to which we're initially drawn. Rarer and More Wonderful is aptly named.
--Graham Foust
"Rarer & More Wonderful are the attachments, the combinations, of these poems. Here,
language, carved and specific, secures one figure to the next, to its double, or is that a
ghost? Perhaps both. And then what appears in the negative space of what happens: "none
of these things / will act as the thing itself that / is soon ending." So there is a serious
struggle here with experience, with being, and then when you least expect it comes the
debonair turn, like getting away with wearing period hats. The period? Well, there's no
closure, either. Of its moment."
--Stephanie Young
