David Jaffin Always Now Click on covers for more information.
Published
2012. Paperback, 374pp, A5 format, £12.50 / $20
ISBN 9781848612075
Jaffin must be one of the world's most productive poets, with at least 10 poems a days, not including the ones he rejects. Always Now is his volume for 2012.
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David Jaffin Light Paths
Published
2011. Paperback, 350pp, A5 format, £12.50 / $20
ISBN 9781848611704
A World mapped-out is the second collection this year by the indefatigable expatriate American poet David Jaffin.
"David Jaffin is a prolific American poet whose work uses the minimum possible means of expression in order to reach for the essentials in his subject matter . . . The limpid texture of his work resists quotation or excerption; his deceptively simple surfaces use the tensions inherent in the vocabulary to oipen up new horizons. Delicate creations, his poems tend to be wonderfully light lyrics." (www.bogpriser.dk)
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David Jaffin A World mapped-out
Published
2010. Paperback, 360pp, A5 format, £12.50 / $20
ISBN 9781848611405
A World mapped-out is the second collection this year by the indefatigable expatriate American poet David Jaffin.
"David Jaffin is a prolific American poet whose work uses the minimum possible means of expression in order to reach for the essentials in his subject matter . . . The limpid texture of his work resists quotation or excerption; his deceptively simple surfaces use the tensions inherent in the vocabulary to oipen up new horizons. Delicate creations, his poems tend to be wonderfully light lyrics." (www.bogpriser.dk)
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David Jaffin Time shadows
Published
2010. Paperback, 370pp, A5 format, £12.50 / $20
ISBN 9781848611009
David Jaffin's annual collection for 2010, Time shadows presents another large selection of his trademark terse lyrics.
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David Jaffin: Wind phrasings
Published
2009. Paperback, 352pp, A5 format, £12.50 / $20
ISBN 9781848610316
Wind phrasings is David Jaffin's annual collection of poems for 2009, and will not disappoint those who admire his terse, short-breathed lyrics.
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David Jaffin: Thought Colors
Published
2008. Paperback, 325pp, A5 format, £12.50 / $20
ISBN 9781905700721. Published jointly with St-Johannis-Druckerei, Lahr, Germany.
Available from SPD in the USA, and direct from the press in the UK.
Jaffin's collection for 2008 — the latest in his annual series of publications. One of the most prolific of poets since he returned to writikng in the late 1990s, Jaffin's fecund poetic imagination never allows his output to stray into mere repetition.
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David Jaffin: Sunstreams
Published
2007. Paperback, 324pp, A5 format, £12 / $20.
ISBN 9781905700400
Sunstreams is David Jaffin's annual volume of poetry for 2007, another collection of micro-lyrics in his trademark short-lined style, with nary a word a spare.
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David Jaffin: Dream Flow
Published
2006. 215x135mm paperback, 311pp, £10 / $17.
ISBN 9781905700141
David Jaffin—an American poet and pastor in the Lutheran (Evangelical) church in Germany—is one of the most productive poets of our time. Dream Flow is his largest single collection to date and features new short lyrics from the year 2005. A master of concision, Jaffin's work is in the American modern tradition but stands outside it to a certain degree, conducting its explorations of language in a remarkably pure, stripped-down style. Published jointly with St-Johannis Druckerei, Lahr, Germany.
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David Jaffin: Intimacies of Sound
Published
2005. 215x135mm paperback, 214pp, £7.50 / $12.
ISBN 9780907562788
Jaffin's eighth collection of his trademark short-lined lyrics with Shearsman.
Published jointly with St-Johannis Druckerei, Lahr, Germany.
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David Jaffin: These Time-Shifting Thoughts
Published
2005. 215x135mm paperback, 214pp, £7.50 / $12.
ISBN 9780907562689
Jaffin's seventh collection of his trademark short-lined lyrics with Shearsman.
Published jointly with St-Johannis Druckerei, Lahr, Germany.
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David Jaffin: A Voiced Awakening
Published
2004. 215x135mm paperback, 214pp, £7.50 / $12.
ISBN 9780907562573
Jaffin's sixth collection of his trademark short-lined lyrics with Shearsman.
Published jointly with St-Johannis Druckerei, Lahr, Germany.
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David Jaffin: Through Lost Silences
Published
2003. 215x135mm paperback, 184pp, £7.50 / $12.
ISBN 9780907562382
Jaffin's fifth collection since he came back to writing poetry. Uniform with the other collections shown on this page.
Published jointly with St-Johannis Druckerei, Lahr, Germany.
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David Jaffin: A Birth in Seeing
Published
2003. 215x135mm paperback, 168pp, £7.50 / $12.
ISBN 9780907562351
Jaffin's fourth collection since he came back to writing poetry. Uniform with the author's three previous collections.
Published jointly with St-Johannis Druckerei, Lahr, Germany.
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David Jaffin: Into the Timeless Deep
Published
2002. 215x135mm paperback, 160pp. £7.50 / $12.
ISBN 9780907562337
A third collection of poems by this German-resident, American-born poet. Edition uniform with the author's other recent collections A Birth in Seeing, That Sense for Meaning, and The Telling of Time.
Published jointly with St-Johannis Druckerei, Lahr, Germany.
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David Jaffin: That Sense for Meaning
Published
2001. 215x135mm paperback, 173pp. £7.50 / $12.
ISBN 9780907562320 Out of print. Some copies still available in the USA via
SPD.
Jaffin's second come-back collection, consisting entirely of new poems from the year 2000 as well as a group of uncollected poems from his early years as a writer, which emphasises his enormous lyric gift.
Published jointly with St-Johannis Druckerei, Lahr, Germany.
David Jaffin: The Telling of Time. Poems 1989-1997
Published
2000. No ISBN. 215x135mm paperback, 215pp, £7.50 / $12.50.
Comeback collection by this long-silent American poet. See the author's subsequent collections above.
Published jointly with St-Johannis Druckerei, Lahr, Germany.
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