Sesshu Foster reading WORLD BALL NOTEBOOK at City Lights Bookstore 4/29/09
afternoon light in the second floor poetry room windows brick building across Kerouac alley with laundry tied on strings fluttering against the side of the brick second story windows opposite like a bright California 1920/30s watercolor I don’t rush anybody thru the streets now I don’t hurry anybody around now I try to listen I don’t reca
"Sesshu Foster's World Ball Notebook is a tour de force of the wide shot and the close-up. On the 'world ball' field, the actions of governments ricochet off each other and their citizens; simultaneously, 70-284 the moves each individual makes in her life produce private effects and global reverberations. Very few contemporary writers have captured with such skill and feeling the specific geography and register of Los Angeles—its relentless highways, 70-432 exam urban milieu, mixes of peoples and languages, various local struggles—and its inextricability from much larger geographical, political and human landscapes that stretch from the American West to Central and South America to Asia. Past and present and future constitute their own playing fields, too. exam 70-536 What distinguishes World Ball Notebook from an array of contemporary poetry books is the capaciousness of Foster's vision, 70-620 one that never generalizes or makes reductive, and his empathetic respect for the individual characters whose lives might otherwise be lost to history
