DYNAMITE ON A CHINA PLATE

​2003, Backwaters Press
Winner of the Reader's Choice Award, 2003
86 pages, paper​

Dynamite on a China Plate

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20.00    

 

​"Jay Leeming writes like an angel. Luminous, startling poems that lift and transform...once you experience them, it is quite possible you will begin, immediately, to need  them. This is a very good sign."                                                         —Naomi Shihab Nye
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"These poems are a delight to read. They move effortlessly between the rational ​and irrational, the conscious and unconscious, accounting for the multiplicity of human desire and imagination."                                                               —Li-Young Lee

​"Every poem in Dynamite on a China Plate drenches us like the wake of a blue whale suddenly breaching from someone’s suburban lawn pool, where at first we might think the beast lost or out of place, we quickly realize it is we who are lost and that the courageous occurrence of such unlikely deep diving poems like “Supermarket Historians” is trying to find us, asking our hearts to weep out a greater water of grief and laughter big enough for us all to jump in and be beautifully lost together."
                                                                                                                                   —Martín Prechtel (author of The Toe Bone and the Tooth)