And For the Mouth A Flower

And For The Mouth A Flower is a gritty mystical chronicle of poems revolving how we sanctify and desecrate in a globalized world. Its many voices quest for what lies on the other side of words. J. TARWOOD has been a dishwasher a community organizer a medical archivist a documentary film producer an oral historian and a teacher. Much of his life has been spent in East Africa Latin America and the Middle East. He has published two previous books The Cats In Zanzibar and Grand Detour. He has always been an unlikely man in unlikely places. "J. Tarwood's And For The Mouth A Flower remembers some of the original ideas of the Walt Whitman who wrote the Calamus poems-it has something to do with our poor affections for one another and an almost sacred belief that everything profound about this life issues from what is most mundane most unmistakably in the daily life." - Norman Dubie is the author of The Volcano The Insomniac Liar of Topo and The Mercy Seat. "Ah J. Tarwood's world where words