i tulips

          Enitharmon Press, 2010:  £9.99       ISBN: 978-1-904634-93-5

To order i tulips, contact Enitharmon Press by clicking here: or contact Mario at mmpetrucci@hotmail.com   how does   fragrance of sleep drift this easily through rooms – as though your resting had keys to every chamber whose open doors i cannot step through – i lie alert & breathe spare room breath & in my casing form you warm & close who slumber farther from sense than how would i know? – perhaps that shape a world might have or a home if it woke from sleep & walked           (c) Mario Petrucci 2010   Click here... for audio from the first full volume of i tulips poems, courtesy of Archive of the Now.	"Petrucci’s tulips promise to grow into a truly ambitious landmark body of work." PBS Bulletin   i tulips surges from its American modernist influences into fascinatingly British timbres of expression. Characterised as much by tenderness as verve, these poems offer a uniquely nuanced experience for the discerning reader. It is not often that an established British poet becomes so profoundly involved in poetic invention in pursuit of such original Anglo-American outcomes. No half measures here: this is a stirring, lyrical poetry that can authentically bridge the Pond while speaking to all. RECIPIENT OF AN ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND 'GRANTS FOR THE ARTS' AWARD and featured by BBC Radio 3 .... click here.   "It’s the sensation of singularly live words that immediately draws one toward Mario Petrucci’s poems. The intensity of address in them, both “of” and “about” the poem, maintains its friendly but firm grip. In the process, Petrucci is seeing the world, how it all sits or moves amidst anyone’s sense of ongoing purpose. He doesn’t miss much. These poems are eye openers." Bill Berkson (USA)   "Petrucci is somebody working with a lively circumspection in a tradition he’s demonstrating not to have been merely an early-to-mid-20th-century exploration." Roy Fisher   "Poised, balletic, in its exploration of intellectual and physical, light-bound space." Simon Jenner   * Informed as much by Rilke and Stevens as by Black Mountain, i tulips projects a fiercely original lyricism through the most tenderly realized immediacies. Here, at last, linguistic and formal invention generate a profoundly meditative, contemporary musicality. Mario Petrucci returns Modernism to its bass note of generosity, affirming that poems of substance, openness and complexity must achieve the urgency and truth of active experience. As with those ‘Magic Eye’ patterns which, viewed intently, yield 3D scenes, or images brought to clarity within a powerful microscope, these luminous poems repay commitment, revealing an uncompromising many-sidedness that lifts – breathtakingly – into focus.   * “Psychogeographer, opto-electronics PhD, and metaphysical poet, Mario Petrucci is a true polymath, blending disciplines to exultant and exalting effect, finding poetry in science and applying the rigours of science to a poetry that brings the heart in the mind pulsing on to the page. Informed by Rilke and Stevens, but with a brio and tenderness all of their own, these new lyric poems are modernist marvels, word sculptures pared to their very essence, with a perspectival breadth and dexterity that recalls cubism, adroitly eliding planes of imagery until all sides of a subject are visible at once. A selection from the first 400 poems of a planned ongoing sequence, Petrucci’s tulips promise to grow into a truly ambitious landmark body of work.” PBS Bulletin Spring 2010 (#224)   "An adventurous suite of spare, fractal lyrics that reveal hidden depths and complexities... an example of Petrucci’s intense and inventive renovation of closely observed human experience." Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre "A primal, timeless unity... i tulips is an outstanding achievement that unlocks the door, as the best collections do, to a new country in the reader's imagination." John McCullough, Poetry London Autumn 2010

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