LIKE FAMILY by John Balaban

Offset printed chapbook with Letterpress printed cover.
ISBN: 978-1-890193-11-9
Edition limited to 300 copies.
24 pages
5 1/4" x 8 1/2"
Text set in Chaparral Pro digital type.
Cover paper is Magnani Pescia.

The Slavic poet sips his morning vodka, his mind
as troubled as the river sliding down below
the 22nd floor of his apartment on the Seine
where a barge cuts the surface to thread Pont Mirabeau.

He knows that words are fading from books.
From poems of Pushkin, from Apollonaire's,
from poems he wrote when talking in his dreams.
Words are disappearing, leaving the pages bare.

from 'Georgi Borrisov' in Like Family by John Balaban (Red Dragonfly Press, 2009)