Something Red by Mark Terrill

Something Red
Mark Terrill
staple-bound. 36 pp.
$9.00

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I could cite tons of other terrific poets whose work Terrill’s compares favorably to, but in the end, his work is unique. I’ve never read anyone quite like him, or known anyone with his extensive resume of wordly-working-man-poet-philosopher experience.

I love the poems in SOMETHING RED, as well as the observations and epiphanies they generate.

-Lally’s Alley on Blogspot

Something Red, which I read last night, completely justifies the small-press ethos. I can’t think of any major publisher who would have issued this sharp collection of illuminations/epiphanies Twenty-eight pieces, each a single sentence: fourteen of them illustrated with the paper-fragments of a life (sonnet echoes). Tiny movies with thought-tracks. I was reminded of the days of Stephen Emerson’s Neighbors, Dale Herd’s Diamonds and, more recently, Merrill Gilfillan’s Magpie Rising. Only fifty copies: well-produced and reasonably priced.

Tom Raworth

Born in Berkeley, California, Mark Terrill shipped out of San Francisco as a merchant seaman, studied and spent time with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the anthology Ends & Beginnings (City Lights Review #6), and has lived in Germany since 1984, where he’s worked as a shipyard welder, road manager for rock bands, cook, postal worker and translator. Recent books include Bread & Fish, Kid with Gray Eyes , and a collection of translations, Like a Pilot: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Selected Poems 1963-1970. Other writings and translations have appeared in several limited edition chapbooks and more than 250 magazines, journals and anthologies worldwide, resulting in three Pushcart Prize nominations. Recently he’s performed his work in various venues in Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris and Prague.