Editing March Book

{{Short description|American poet Jesse Ball's first book}}
{{Italic title}}'''''March Book''''' is the debut book of [[poetry]] by American writer [[Jesse Ball]]''.'' The book was published in April 2004 by [[Grove Press]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=March Book |url=https://groveatlantic.com/book/march-book/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |website=Grove Atlantic |language=en}}</ref> 

{{Infobox book | image = March Book.jpg| name=March Book|author=[[Jesse Ball]]|country=United States|language=English|published=2004 (Grove Books)|pages=103 Pages|isbn=978-0-8021-4122-4}}

== Critical reception ==
DeSales Harrison in [[Boston Review]] wrote "what remains to be established in Ball’s work is a sense of what responsibilities his luminous, arresting, uncanny dreamscapes call the reader toward".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harrison |first1=DeSales |title=Strange Relations |url=https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/strange-relations/ |website=Boston Review |access-date=22 April 2024 |date=2005-02-01}}</ref>

The Irish poet [[Eamon Grennan]] provides the following endorsement on the back cover of the first edition of ''March Book'':
<blockquote>"Various in subject matter, consistent in their control of voice, at home in memory, fable, parable, the poems in ''March Book'' add up to a mature, surprising and extraordinarily lively first collection. Jesse Ball's imagination is at once mordant and playful, inhabiting and populating its world with a mixture of enigmatic observation and direct speech. He stands where the true poet should, in his properly vulnerable position, his motto: 'we are near a truth and daren't speak.' Like a fractured prism, his poems dissolve the self into other voices and remote situations, each one a glittering shard of some unspoken truth that offers itself 'resolute outside the haze of his own life.' There is, however, nothing hazy about the work, informed as it is by a verbally honed, sharply pointed steadiness of purpose. 'In these unruly days,' he says in one poem, 'even prayer may be true.' Combating unruliness with their curious mixture of surprise and formal grace, the poems of ''March Book'' insist on their own kind of truth, and are their own kind of oddly angled prayer."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grennan |first=Eamon |author-link=Eamon Grennan |title=March Book, by Jesse Ball |publisher=Grove Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8021-4122-4 |edition=1st |location=New York |language=en |chapter=Cover endorsement}}</ref></blockquote>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://jesseball.com Official website of Jesse Ball]
* [http://jesseball.com/docs/clairereview.pdf Claire Nicholas White's review] (PDF)
* [http://www.bostonreview.net/BR30.1/harrison.html DeSales Harrison's review in Boston Review]

[[Category:American poetry collections]]


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