Dust Jacket
Barry Seiler

His photograph on the back cover
Or as we say the dust jacket

The space around him filled with praise

The spine rigid

We are happy to put a face to a name
To watch it age volume to volume
To come to resemble the volumes

The way as we say a master does his dog

© 2006 Barry Seiler

© University of Akron Press

© University of Akron Press

Barry Seiler has published four books of poems: Frozen Falls, The Waters of Forgetting, Retaining Wall, and Black Leaf. "Dust Jacket," "Window," and "Pincushion" are part of "Flotsam," a sequence of about thirty poems. He divides his time between urban northern New Jersey and rural upstate New York.