The Underwater Typewriter

Poetry. THE UNDERWATER TYPEWRITER is a collection of poetry that immerses us in voice, bestowed by grace, in the face of cruelty, coercion, chance, betrayal and loss. THE UNDERWATER TYPEWRITER arrives as a collection of weathered shards, through which light and by implication love pass kaleidoscopically. Its shifting patterns reveal the variety and range demanded of a poet traversing brutal terrain, tempted by but refusing bitterness. Zegans' poetry finds human possibility in the broken, and discovers life beyond wistful memory compiled in the collage of remaindered things. With language and metaphor beautiful and delicate, THE UNDERWATER TYPEWRITER, a selke's gift, draws us back to ourselves, as we journey through extraordinarily hard emotions to the beating heart of our connection with people and place. Listen closely as you read, for sound travels great distances under water.

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Marc Zegans is the author of the poetry collection "Pillow Talk" and two spoken word albums, "Marker and Parker" and "Night Work." He comes to "The Underwater Typewriter" through the bayous and backwaters of American poetry, having been the Narragansett Beer Poet Laureate, and a Poetry Whore with the New York Poetry Brothel-which "Time Out New York" described as "New York's Sexiest Literary Event." Marc has performed everywhere from the Bowery Poetry Club to the American Poetry Museum. As an immersive theater producer, he created the Boston Center for the Arts' CycSpecific "Speak-Easy" and "Salon Poetique: A Gathering of the 'Tossed Generation.'" He also has been MC and co-producer of "The No Hipsters Rock 'n Roll Revue" and co-producer, with Karen Lee, of "Burlesque for Books." Marc lives near the coast in Northern California.