Nights * Sifnos * Hands

          Flarestack Poets, 2010:    £4.50       ISBN: 978-1-906480-24-0    (pamphlet)

To order nights * sifnos * hands, contact Flarestack Poets by clicking here: or contact Mario at mmpetrucci@hotmail.com     Blue   Night Lightning.   Lifts a lance.   Another.   Drops his grille of dark then charges to rumble me at this thin-glass protection.   I face blue-black armour.   Neon escutcheons. Perhaps violence redresses.   Starts these sheepish sleepless lines seeking to dispatch night by ration -alising weather: as if to sunder horse more than rider by reaching for the switch that raises to the night its white hand -kerchief window.    Only to drop it.   That bolt found its mark.   Must have struck a substation.   Dark on its hoofs of dark romps in – but only to level.   Each flash rings through the black.   One lance slaps a spire to copper and lava.   Let it. Let morning be for green and skew-white faces of children.   Light – for once I’ll do without.   Others at their windows shadow themselves in blue.           (c) Mario Petrucci 2010

Nights * Sifnos * Hands brings together three divertissements from Mario Petrucci's monumental modernist sequence, i tulips. Informed by the Black Mountain and Objectivist poets, this triad captures the sense of form and thematic range of the parent work, projected to reach over a thousand poems. The symphonic movement of subject matter in this selection resounds with Petrucci's characteristic layering of insight, his fascination with the fractured musical opportunities offered by the poetic line. From molecular note to cosmic chord, we witness Petrucci's unique fusion of science with art and, above all, his utter commitment and devotion to language.     “Displays awareness of the cutting edge of international creative experiments without losing sight of accessibility. A fantastic demonstration of how form and meaning can collaborate to create great poetry.” George Ttoouli   "Poised, balletic, in its exploration of intellectual and physical, light-bound space." Simon Jenner   “Petrucci is somebody working with a lively circumspection in a tradition he’s demonstrating not to have been merely an early-to-mid-20th-century exploration.” Roy Fisher   “Immensely evocative of the shifting hues and tones of night in different times and places. The middle sequence... gives full rein to Petrucci’s experimental but never fetishistic exploration of language and line, resulting in intensely musical meditations on place and nature. Finally, ‘fifteen variations and no fugue’... form an intimate, delicate dissection of the physical, emotional and musical dimensions of the human hand.” The Frogmore Papers 77 (Spring 2011)

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