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—Frank Sherlock and CA Conrad
Mooncalf Press
PO Box 22521
Philadelphia, Pa 19110
mooncalfpress@aol.com
20 pages

Frank Sherlock and CA Conrad, two great Philly poets, collaborate here on a chapbook “dedicated to / the / frequencies / this is a book of correspondences / between /2poets /. These pages of verse, short and musical, sit up on the page like echoes of songs…exist /on no. Sherlock’s previous work, some of which we has been published in Tool a Magazine, hits the same marks, somewhat in the same realm as Neidecker or Zukofsky, threading together pictures and sounds, but the style is all his own. CA has a book out from Buck Downs Books, advanced elvis course, which summons the spirit of Elvis. What I feel here, in this collaboration, is the music between these two.

Great lines that stand out include:

Beat cracks of foundation / a pitch for blur / in perfect pinch/

certain streets in Philadelphia / smell of burnt toast early / in the morning/

until human / mouth / volcanoes/

Between / light & shade, no quiet world- / hums in silence./


Voices move around on the page, and it is very enjoyable seeing this collaboration between two poets whose work I have enjoyed independent of each other. If you like this, check out Banjo: poets talking # 1, which features a discussion between CA and Kyle Connor, also on Mooncalf Press.

P.S. On the last page is a picture of a 1938 Zenith Wavemagnet radio, model # 6D 315U.


--Erik Sweet [February 2002]

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