From Away by Eli Goldblatt

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From Away is filled with spaces where memory fades into forgetfulness, where inattention opens into startling recollection.  Writing out of the pandemic, Goldblatt registers desolation realistically and surrealistically, in dreams forgotten at their margins, and yet turns the desolate toward renewal, as “catalpa front, . . . raccoon scat & mushroom waste embroider the /  path I’m on.”
— Nathalie Anderson, poet, librettist, Pew Fellow, author of Rough, Stain, and Held and Firmly Bound

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From Away, by Eli Goldblatt / Poetry
ISBN 978-1-946104-73-1
Published 2026, on sale until February 15, 2026

Eli Goldblatt walks and when he walks he observes closely, as Thoreau did, the details and the auras. Trees and birds, streams, fences, flowers, weeds, the world is moving (in both senses) and Goldblatt moves with it, feelingly. If you value poetry as a record of the profound sense of what it is to be humanly in the world, with all its contradictions and urgencies, you will cherish the companionship of From Away, each line loaded with bits and pieces of realized living.
— Norman Fischer, poet, essayist, Zen Buddhist priest and teacher, author of Selected Poems 1980-2013

Eli Goldblatt’s From Away remains as poetry, never converted to form accorded to the scholarly realm, or to the nascent realm of the first maturing mind. Here is the poetic mind that suspends itself in vapour.
— Will Alexander, poet, artist, musician, author of Divine Blue Light, The Combustion Cycle, and Texas Blind Salamander Feelings

(front cover mixed media collage: Hiker, by Wendy Osterweil.

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