The Language of Rain by Jules Leigh Koch

The Language of Rain

by Jules Leigh Koch

Rob Scott of Bookends Books and Music, 2008
First edition
Black and white photographs
ISBN 9781876725006
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to corners and covers, a little curling at top corner (see photographs)

“Similes and metaphors or striking originality are embedded in all Jules Leigh Koch’s poetry.  Even so, his third collection is much more than imagism.
Wry, ironic and savage portraits alternate with numbing grief.  Disabled children are described and analysed without a trace of sentimentality.  Relationships from fleeting glances to bitter parting are dramatized in scenes and narratives.  The last displayed in city and seascapes as if it were a cosmic lightshow.
Koch’s fascination with rain is a kind of prayer for the end of both drought and global warming.”