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 b...
Whether probing the mysteries of the trombone, celebrating frogs celebrating a pond, grieving the Gulf War bombings, or examining the beaching of 41 sperm whales, James Grabill locates the wellsprings of imagination, compassion, and possibility."--John Bradley, editor of Atomic Ghost
