Iron Filings or Scribblings Amy Nathan PRAISE FOR MARK JARMAN'S POETRY

PRAISE FOR MARK JARMAN'S POETRY AND PROSE: “With precision and tenderness

Caught between his forest-world and the world of school

faraway-feeling "land of rain

we've probably all asked ourselves whether people who talk about will and willpower are all talking about the same thing or even talking sense

"—Philadelphia Inquirer

Iron Filings or Scribblings Amy Nathan PRAISE FOR MARK JARMAN'S POETRY266 page paperback 5. 5" x 8. 5" ISBN 9781589881334 Publication Date: 2 19 2019 As iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so these essays display Eva Branns form of oppositional, or polar, thinking. To introduce her book, Eva Brann calls up the image of Iron Filings as they "settle themselves along the lines of force that form a field of influence around a bar magnet that has itself been allowed to settle itself in its natural direction.