The Little Door Slides Back

But then, from way off, with cranking

comes my night, and when it arrives

I go to it like a callboy to a c-note.

— "My Interior"

"Jeff Clark's poems ... marry the stoned reveries of our postmodern era with the symbolist bliss of a previous one ... In meticulously crafted verse and prose poems, The Little Door Slides Back offers the reader glimpses of a shadow world, seen by a visionary who has a clear strategy for depicting them." — *Ruth Andrews, Rain Taxi

"A 120-page spell ... This is a beautiful work whose accuracy edges on the uncanny. Within, among, and around it all is presence, an almost hallucinogenic immediacy in which everything is seen and is in turn seeing." — Cole Swenson, American Letters & Commentary

"Clark integrates fin-de-siècle richness, hallucinatory vision, and a gothicism extracted from the bleak cul-de-sacs of postmodern life ... constructing a flaneur who is both terrified and bemused by the world he enters as 'the little door slides back.'" — John Yau, Boston Review

• Author
• Jeff Clark

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 97

• Publisher
• Farrar Straus Giroux

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-374-18858-0

• EAN
• 9780374188580

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 2004