Habitat of Stones

Poetry. "In Ezra Dan Feldman's luminously postmodern HABITAT OF STONES, 'omens are aerial,' clouds thicken -- in a deliciously precise observation -- 'like marble cake,' and 'the arrogant man' (having 'mistaken a bathtub for a grave') discovers that love's true catastrophe is when it brings equanimity. He hopes, in a line that gives this brilliant collection its title, 'to restore the natural habitat of stones.' And thus is the poetry in this startling debut collection -- clear, without giving up its mystery, ferociously whimsical, the wry and gorgeous language taking us places we'd never imagine without Feldman's bold and capacious vision."--Cynthia Hogue




"Exposing patriarchal and capitalistic practices that often cripple society, Ezra Dan Feldman's HABITAT OF STONES reveals the symptoms of living in a post-industrial and illusional, high-tech world: 'He's taken the world for a machine, a baby for a doll, a gun for a candy bar, which he offered to everyone. He once mistook a hammer for his own hand. Once he made love to a wall.' Finally, HABITAT OF STONES directs us back to the natural world that recharges the human psyche, where a limb touched 'touches you back / electrically; you'll feel it moving in itself ten billion times / faster than a continental shelf.'"--Mark Irwin