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Jim Dunn: Angry Bull's Cadence

Jim Dunn: Angry Bull's Cadence

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Jim Dunn’s Angry Bull’s Cadence is a unique little book of Abecedarian poems, one of the oldest forms of acrostic poems traditionally used for sacred and didactic purposes. These 26 poems written in bursts of Alphabetic inspiration, were written meticulously over a 10 year period. 

They each have strange and curious rhythms and energies — themes and images emerge under the strict order of the 26 letters of the alphabet. Jim was committed to a strict Abecedarian aesthetic, twenty six poems twenty six words per poem. 

From each of these 26 poems a certain magic emerges, a poetry of the most basic elements — ABCs — an Angry Bull’s Cadence that increases with the rhythm and energy of each sparse creation.

Praise for Jim Dunn:

‘In our “systematically stupefied society” (Franklin Rosemont) what refreshment and joy to find these poem-hits in Soft Launch by Jim Dunn, “flashes of emotional perception that transfigure the sad remains of the City.”’ 
—Gerrit Lansing

‘Jim Dunn’s observant eye looks
On with exquisite concision as he
Turns the haiku inside-out.’
—Neeli Cherkovski

‘A word angler by trade, Dunn feels his way by measure across current and tide, in kind with hooks at the ends of lines cast sharp and quick: “A clue to your soul / Found within the flickering / Lost within the sun.” Like modest courage teachers, Dunn knows to work on the other side of time, as a guest of eternal space. Join him here, in this shadow of an open book, in this place where silence speaks.’

—Andrew K. Peterson

Jim Dunn is the author of This Silence is a Junkyard (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), Soft Launch (Bootstrap Press/Pressed Wafer, 2008), Convenient Hole (Pressed Wafer, 2004), and Insects in Sex (Fallen Angel Press, 1995). His work has appeared in Castle Grayskull, Blazing Stadium, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Bright Pink Mosquito, The Process, eoagh, Gerry Mulligan, Café Review, Meanie, and the anthology tribute to John Wieners, The Blind See Only This World. He recently edited the poems of Charley Shively, I Have a Poem for You with Erik Lomen for Bootstrap Press. He lives on the North Shore of Boston.

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