Bleak Landscape in The Key of A – Variations on a Dictionary of Geology – Richard Lomuto – ISBN 9783826075407 / 978-3-8260-7540-7 / 978-3-82-607540-7

Falling in love, landing, making an impression, leaving a piece of ourselves in the hollow, excavating the emptiness to analyze the remains, repeat. Eventually, we riddle the earth with our wingless natures. Looking back, trying to describe our amorous relationships in all their earthly particulars, the absence of an adequate vocabulary rears its head. This book attempts to redress the problem. As anyone who has ever wielded a shovel in search of themselves knows, when “digging the pit of Babel” the heap grows larger than the hole.

The Author
Richard Lomuto was born in Brooklyn in 1961. He is the author of numerous books and poems, including, Peter Bruegel, A primer; A Brief Study of Titian’s Diana and Actaeon; A Guidebook to the Terminal Rhymes of Charles Baudelaire; Notes for a Libretto; and In the Variorum, prose poems.