Movements & Measures
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Written between 1998 and 2003, most of the poems here once existed as part of a planned collection called "a measured distance." Many from that original manuscript are now lost. Those that survived are featured here, unaltered. These poems "are the little ghosts of children" that haunt the poet "like pictures displayed on a mantle." T.J. Blackburn hopes their publication will silence those ghosts.
T.J. Blackburn
T.J. Blackburn is a poet and writer from Atlanta, GA where he currently lives with his wife and their two dogs. He is the co-founder of Zero Edition Press, an experimental self-publishing co-operative. Currently, T.J. experiments on the serialized zombie narrative «Siege of The Dead» at www.deadsiege.blogspot.com His first collections of poetry, movements and measures, is now available as an e-Book published by Zero Edition Press and distributed by Smashwords.com. You can also find Zero Edition Press here on Smashwords at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/zeroeditionpress.
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Movements & Measures - T.J. Blackburn
Foreword
What you will read here is a small selection from the original manuscript of a measured distance. Written between 1998 and 2003, most of the poems in that collection have been discarded, abandoned, or otherwise wished away. A few managed to resurface; I included them here—good and bad—unaltered.
As for those that survived the initial culling and subsequent purges: I revisited them countless times, reworking and reshaping them into their current and (for now) final versions. They live here and there, biding their time, waiting to be collected with my more recent writings. They are included here as well in their original a measured distance