Southness

A set of lyrically composed poems by poet and translator Vincent Katz which evince the urban plethora as the poet traverses a Southness of the mind and ranges through freshly concise forms.

Poet John Godfrey comments:

"Vincent Katz’s eye lights on the visual like a cameraman, his intellect reflecting

romantic masculinity with worldliness. Objects, moods and self-awareness

have their own space and gravity. In several lyrical poems he exercises coolness

while implicitly maintaining that nothing in the medium is not personal.

Denser poems present mental spaces word-to-word that thread striking

affinities. The words resonate, in their abbreviation, with feeling and honesty.

Southness is sophisticated hot-bloodedness underlying method and manner.

Excellence modeled with humanity. The poet in and out of the shadows."

With cover from a detail of painting by distinguished painter and poet, Etel Adnan.