A Filament Drawn So Thin by Jeff Burt

Poetry

35 pages

8.5” x 5.5” single signature with hand sewn binding

Published November 2023

In language that is concise and muscular, Jeff Burt’s chapbook about his father is full of the dignity of work. The boy’s rapt attention to his father, whether he is setting type or walking the woods, is never sentimental. The language is particularly satisfying because it’s so real –whetstone, turpentine, sawdust, “the resin of time.”  Burt writes of his father, “He will not be a footnote / at the bottom of anyone’s history” because of how alive he is on the page for the poet and the reader.