Pub Date: Jan. 1st, 2006
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
Trim Size: 6″ x 7″
ISBN: 978–0–965944–35–9
Price: $8.95

The much anticipated second collection of poems by one of the most dextrous, original, and dazzling voices in American poetry today. Critic Maria Damon has called Jeffrey Little “an unsung poetry treasure.” The Book of Arcana is formally innovative and emotionally resonant, and weaves a dizzying array of references, from ancient civilizations to contemporary pop culture and back again. Little is one of the leading experimental writers in the American poetry underground.

Gershom Scholem meets Max Bodenheim at the Hotel Sterno for tea (or something) with Kafka and Breton. Jeffrey Little rocks, twitches, and utters cascading numinal concatinations that sound good and are funny in a meaningful way. He’s an unsung poetry treasure; help discover him. Be the first in your neighborhood to put Jeffrey Little on the poetry map.
-Maria Damon, author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry

Jeffrey Little’s poems are aburst with incredible juxtapositions of images/words several times in each line–Groucho like barrage of language sparking memories and connotations to feel them inter-react. This rapidly shifting dynamism works because the poems are rooted in a sense of situation back-lit with emotional resonance. I’m going to get a second copy of this book and cut the poems into 365 pieces so I can have a hit of this wonder-full linguistic energy every day of the year.
-Dan Raphael, author of Showing Light a Good Time.

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