Lighthouse (Atelos 11)

At the center of M. Mara-Ann's rectangular Lighthouse is an untitled, multipage visual work, consisting of Barnett Newman-like bands of shading in which lines of text are embedded (everything from a ""sovereign"" to ""my slow, directed concentration""), creating an effect unlike anything else in concrete poetry or visual art. Editor of the visual-poetic e-journal Wood (www.medusa.orgwood), Mara rounds out the book with ""water rites,"" ""chance sublimation,"" ""provident ascension,"" ""belief,"" ""respite"" and 10 other poems sum to a complete thought, or one revolution of the search light: ""opening the breadth and a full view of character lingering through a slowness of step the light respite just located in reception."" (June)