Gerald Fleming - One (Corte Madera)

Gerald Fleming’s new book of prose poems (Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn)—titled, simply, One, pushes the tensile strength of the English language. Frederick Barthelme has called the work in this new volume “dizzying and wonderful, pretzelesque,” and for Fleming the book is the culmination of two years’ work using a language “constrained, but somehow liberated in that constraint.” Of his last book, The Choreographer (Sixteen Rivers Press), the poet Terence Winch said, “Fleming’s world is a universe of his own making, defined by a poet’s sense of language and a novelist’s take on story. Readers will have a blast traveling through this wondrous place.”

Gerald Fleming’s most recent books are Night of Pure Breathing, prose poems (Hanging Loose Press), and Swimmer Climbing onto Shore, poetry (Sixteen Rivers Press). Fleming taught in San Francisco’s public schools for thirty-seven years and has written three books for teachers, including Rain, Steam, and Speed (Jossey-Bass/Wiley). From 1995 to 2000, he edited and published the literary magazine Barnabe Mountain Review. In 2013, with his brother and sister—glass artists Bernie Fleming and Michaela Fleming—he launched the limited-edition magazine One (More) Glass.

 

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925