Great Balls of Doubt gathers 96 of Mark Terrill's poems and prose poems from limited-edition chapbooks and broadsides (many now sold out or no longer in print) and from hard-to-find journals and magazines, as well as his recent, previously uncollected work. Lavishly illustrated with 25 drawings by Jon Langford, Great Balls of Doubt delivers images and sentiments ranging from the real to the surreal to the elegiac, with no shortage of humor along the way. "Doubt is an unpleasant condition," Voltaire once remarked, "but certainty is absurd.
Prose. A native Californian and former merchant seaman, Mark Terrill was a particpant in Paul Bowles' writing workshop in Tangier, Morocco, and has lived in Germany since 1984 where he has worked as a shipyard welder, road manager for bands, cook and postal worker. His poems, prose and translations have appeared widely in the U.S. and abroad. Among his recent books is KID WITH GRAY EYES, also available from SPD. "Checking into the hotel in Fez Morocco I go up to my room & sprawl on the bed burned-out & beat after the long drive down from Tangier & as I'm lying there glancing around the room in my post-transit daze my eyes gradually fix on a framed picture..." (from "Jim").
Poetry. "Mark Terrill, the true poet and 'forlorn observer' of the world he sees as essentially forlorn, if not absurd, if not entirely hopeless, and nothing on the end of his fork to really wax ecstatic abouT...But his poetry is far from hopeless. It is a hard light to alleviate the situation of the world as he sees it" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "I've always liked your poetry; it has a steady stripped down rhythm to it. Little pings of microscopic truth" - John Bennett. Terrill is the author of BREAD & FISH, LOVE-HATE CONTINUUM, and LIKE A PILOT, a collection of translations of Rolf Dieter Brinkman.
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