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Reviews This is an amzing collection. It illustrates Aplon's creativity and imagination and no one, absolutely no one has a voice like his. Not for Everyone . . . it's anything but mainstream, but those who do find it and are willing to turn themselves over to the logic of these stories, and the wonder therein, are in for a memorable ride! - Judy Reeves: Author A Writer's Book of Days The Man With His Back To The Room The Man with His Back to the Room is a collection of poems that captivates the reader with its unique style of free verse and touch of avant-garde. "The arms that wave from the windows are black& the cats that roam the street are black & there are black beards & black hands & black market toys& you’ve blackened the windows & shut my eyes…” Down to earth and expressive, these selected poems bring reality and life (which reflect his Barcelona setting) through dynamic images and language. “The man in the gray hat In winter he carries a gun & news of religious sacrifice.” For lovers of modern free verse with a fresh approach—you can’t go wrong with this one. Wayne Adam - Curl Up With A Good Book
For me the "daybook" pieces are like a surreal diary of anguished grief. Some of the images almost make one cringe. Very, very powerful. . . Many of the others . . . are a descent into an inferno that makes Dante's journey look like a summer picnic. Ron Offen - Editor & Publisher: Free Lunch Last Book: Off-Target
Many of these poems deal with painful and shadowy material. Some feel improvised and pulled toward the disparate and wild. Yet Aplon unifies them with a wave-like pulse, often stretched and held, an audible unevenness that comes alive as one reads. The images don't slow and regard themselves; rather, they keep moving, like field binoculars surveying a scene. Phrases that end with the & (the ampersand) push forward with renewing energy—the way a dream unfolds by attaching new, more complicating strangeness. And, while some of these poems relate to, and delight in, the tangential, they don’t appear random. I especially like those that turn and discover themselves and their meanings at the end—like the exquisite title poem. This is a book to treasure. - Thomas Larson - Author: The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reflections on a New Literary Form Ohio University Press / 2007
". . . you can open it to any page and find something
unique and evocative...the book is a classic." "Its vigor and range so engage me . . . in proximity,
or taken together, they [these 'entries'] form a kind of 'Song of Myself,'
a grand forum that contains observations, feelings, memories and their
interpretations - [all] influenced by [its] music." It's Mother's Day
By Dawn's Early Light at 120 Miles per Hour
". . . the single most striking fact about this book
is the range of its voice." Stiletto "In Stiletto we encounter an art based in head
on collision." "Aplon, who has a particular gift for enjambing
images and using line-ends as devices to modulate velocity, is primarily
concerned with commonplace items, which makes this book somehow deceptive;
the poems work almost mnemonically; one remembers how they 'feel' much
more than what they say. Stiletto represents a poetic maturity, almost
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