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By This Time by Ian Ganassi

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For many poets, a poem is a way of getting from point A to point B. That’s fine if getting somewhere is all you want from a poem. Ian Ganassi is not such a poet, so don’t expect a short ride in a fast car. Yes, he starts out from point A, but he takes the scenic route, and he makes all the stops on the way to point B. Or point E. Or point S. Or point X. Or doubles back to point A. In the 61 uncanny, magical, free-associative, and thought-provoking poems of By This Time, his third book, Ganassi once again proves that poetry is an adventure, that it’s all about the journey, and “as we drift deeper into the dark, we can see for miles and miles.”

–J.R. Solonche

 

I spent the weekend reading Ian’s new book, By This time. His poetry is brilliantly speckled with randomness, humor, wordplay, and methodical wordcraft. He  weaves it all into a web you won’t want to untangle yourself from. Just wonderful.

–Frank Murphy, Editor of Home Planet News

 

By This Time” brings strongly to mind other art forms, like the Theater of the Absurd and Surrealist painting: it is a gift of the unexpected and a load of poetic and artistic fun.

–Ricardo L. Nirenberg, editor of Offcourse literary journal.

 

 

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By This Time

by Ian Ganassi

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As the title of the book suggests, the poems in it are largely concerned with the passage of time and the assortment of expectations and challenges that come with it. Our personal histories are not segregated in memory, but are constantly interrupting the continuity of the present, both consciously and unconsciously. And no one can live up to the demands of time without failure of some sort. But there is also humor here, which comes to our rescue in the form of lines, poems, and scenarios that make us look at ourselves from a comic perspective. If failure is one natural result of our dealing with time as adults in society, humor gives us a way of seeing our failures and successes in a wiser light.

By This Time is Ian Ganassi’s third poetry collection. Ian is a retired dance accompanist, having played African and Caribbean percussion for dance classes for at least 30 years. As a poet and musician he has collaborated with dancers and musicians throughout the New York metropolitan area. Since 2005 he has collaborated with the painter Laura Bell on an ongoing collage project called The Corpses (after the surrealist parlor game). The collages have appeared in galleries, literary journals, and other venues. He has published poetry in numerous literary journals, including The Yale Review, The American Journal of Poetry, New American Writingand Blazevox,, among many others.

His two other collections are Mean Numbers and True for the Moment.

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