(Freeport, NY) Giant Steps Press is pleased to announce
the publication
of Planetary Motions, a new
book of poetry from Hudson Valley writer William Seaton. The volume
includes lyrics written since the author’s last collection Spoor of
Desire as well as Seaton’s sound poems, which he calls “adult nursery
rhymes,” and translations from German, Greek, Latin, and French. In the
foreword Seaton describes his works as “snapshots of consciousness reflecting
glints of shattered truth which I wave in the dark like a blessedly naïve child
with a sparkler.”
In advance
reviews Kirpal Gordon praised “the music these poems make and the momentum they
create” with a “just-so-ness of phrase and sound.” Steve Hirsch said
Seaton reveals “new heart-treasure and insight into who we are.” For
Janet Hamill “he establishes an elegant pattern with this kaleidoscope of
words.”
Seaton has long been active in the Hudson Valley poetry
scene. He ran the Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series,
co-founded the Northeast Poetry Center and taught in its College of Poetry, and
worked with the Seligmann Center for the Arts, producing numerous artistic and
scholarly events including the Surreal Cabarets of performance art. He
maintains a “largely literary” blog at williamseaton.blogspot.com.
The book is
available from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MS5KNJB/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=seaton+planetary+motions&s=books&sr=1-1.
Founded in
2011, Giant Steps is a small New York City press named in tribute to the
classic John Coltrane album, specializing in publishing books on jazz and
jazz-influenced poets.
