Quale Press Publishes SOUND/HAMMER by Dennis Barone

Sound/Hammer resides at the interface of poetry and prose. The first half of the book, "Sound," yields poems that ques- tion, and explore, the division between poetry and prose. Some poems embark on narrative flights; others are insistent in letting music trump plot. "Hammer" lets prose do the work. Some stories unfold simple, and just happen. Other sto- ries demand attention to their music, with a few stories evolving into a condition where the music is the story. Sound/Hammer tries to bring halves into a whole, to follow diverse yet unified thread, to knit rough seams together invis-

ibly, to be targeted by exploding into multi-directional arrays, to opt for rub- bing out the straight lines and shifting focus into the mind's eye.

DENNIS BARONE's work has appeared in the Chicago Review, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, and Quarter After Eight among others. Barone has edited numerous collections and published several books of fiction, including Temple of the Rat and Echoes. In 1992 he held the Thomas Jefferson Chair, a distinguished lecturing award in the Netherlands. He cur- rently teaches at St. Joseph's College in Connecticut. Quale Press has published many of his works: Field Report, North Arrow, Precise Machine,Walking Backwards and The Disguise of Events.

Available directly from Small Press Distribution, 1341 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA 94710, 800-869-7553, www.spdbooks.org.