What is A Tonalist? The short answer is that it is in some (uncomfortable) way related to lyric, retaining doubt about the possibility of engaging in and with that vexed genre … As you read these poems, you can watch as place is found, made, questioned, left and reasserted … There is also a lot of sex and a huge number of amazing verbs … (from Laura Moriarty’s Introduction)
[»»]Laura Moriarty: A Tonalist Where (and What) Art Thou? [»»]Taylor Brady: Maps, Jokes and Heavy Armor [»»]Julian T. Brolaski: Five poems [»»]Norma Cole: from “More Facts” [»»]Brent Cunningham: A Note on the A Tonalist [»»]Jean Daive: “A Woman with Several Lives,” Tr. Norma Cole [»»]Ray DiPalma: Obloquium and Committer of Tidings: Seven poems [»»]Dolores Dorantes: from “Dear Factory” translated by Jen Hofer
