The powerful and influential last poems of an unsung master, now again available, with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Mark Doty
The Salt Ecstasies
Poems
- “This long-out-of-print, legendary and highly influential book of poetry takes on new meaning from one generation to the next. . . . Forceful, radiant, imagistic.”—The Bloomsbury Review
James L. White's The Salt Ecstasies--originally published in 1982, shortly after White's untimely death--has earned a reputation for its artful and explicit expression of homosexual love and desire. In this new edition, with an introduction by Mark Doty and previously unpublished works by White, this invaluable poetry is again available--clear, passionate, and hard-earned.
The Salt Ecstasies is a new book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, edited by Mark Doty, dedicated to bringing essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print.
The Salt Ecstasies is a new book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, edited by Mark Doty, dedicated to bringing essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print.
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Praise
- “The Salt Ecstasies is really just a beautiful book of poetry, filled with blindingly fierce imagery and destructively skillful writing, but it’s most importantly an honest book, its poems written straight from White’s heart and from his gut.”—The Rumpus
- “James L. White [is] an individual regarded by many poetic critics as an unsung hero of poetry. . . . [and] The Salt Ecstasies is a fine collection for any hardcore poetry lover.”—The Midwest Book Review
- “[The Salt Ecstasies are] the most candid, authentic, and compelling poems about American eros that I have ever read. . . . Perhaps their most enduring quality is their ability to express universal truths of sexual intimacy . . . in ways that resonate for readers gay and straight alike.”—Emprise Review
