Description: "A probing collection of new and selected poetry from Jonathan Aaron. A poem uses words to try to get at what can't be put into words. The best poems remain just out of reach; something in or about them remains mysterious. A poem itself is an inquiry or a search, that is never finished, never fulfilled. As Wislawa Szymborska said, "Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'""--
Brief description: Jonathan Aaron is the author of three previous books of poems, including Second Sight, Corridor, and Journey to the Lost City. His poems have appeared in the London Review of Books, New Yorker, New York Review of Books, and Raritan, among others, and they have been included five times in Best American Poetry. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Review Quotes: "Jonathan Aaron is the master of the noir fable. Ranging from the darkly humorous to the elegiac, the poems in Just About Anything both show and recount how the ordinary can slip at any moment into the unsteady worlds of legend and dream: A dog advises her master to read Solzhenitsyn; a landlady's husband turns into a giant snake; a man time-travels to tell Bach about the future. Aaron's haunting collection leads us to places where we experience ourselves--suddenly and unpredictably--'more truly and more strange.'"-- "Rosanna Warren"