Creosote (poetry)

The Seamark Press
Iowa City, Iowa
1976
Black and white illustrations by Nana Burford

Narrow octavo. vi; 70 pages. In handmade paper boards covered with grass-green Japanese rice paper, with a printed paper label on the upper cover and spine.
This book has been hand-set in Meridien types & printed on Ragston paper in an edition of 500 copies by Kay Amert & Howard Zimmon.

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“…individual, accessible, and ‘American’ in the broadest and best sense of that difficult term.”

Creosote…offers a wide range of perspectives including the obsessions of a spiritual mystic, the love and anguish of a sensitive father and the often humorous self-examination of a serious artist.

Ken McCullough is a gifted poet whose vision is intelligent and piercing. These poems are the flesh of one writer’s spirit, finely erected bulwarks against the forces of destruction.

Creosote reveals a nexus of emotion and intellect patient enough to wait for the gift given up out of the primal, psychic twilight which shades experience and dreams. The resultant originality of vision is, then…always superior to the drenchingly dull verse so common across a wide spectrum of publications—traditional, sportive, and avant garde. Ken is awake to himself and otherness, and courageous enough to support the vulnerability necessary to the creative act.