Askew – Found and Lost in the Almost South of France is part memoir, part manifesto, part log of epiphanies all shaped and related through Dan Harder’s unique poetic invention, zipper poetry. Askew is a passionate work of exquisite beauty and originality which challenges the reader’s intellect and imagination on multiple levels.  It is the story of a young man’s travels to one of the least traveled parts of the (almost) South of France.  Within a short period of time, he forms a relationship with a family that will challenge his understanding of love, compassion, and sanity.

In the words of Kevin Killlian, “Multiple stories appear to unfold within the same files of time and space.  Harder’s got a fine visual sense, and a corresponding dynamism of language reminiscent, in another genre, of the films of Alain Resnais - who would applaud his poem ‘Sanfranithaca’ on its rueful recognition of a split consciousness and its ‘chartless Odysseus/with time to kill….’.” 

“I have followed Dan Harder’s work for years,” says Jack Foley, “and have always found it fascinating.  Often poets, like painters, rely on a single point of view, but Harder’s work consists of the intersection of points of view: the mind opens to more than one possibility of meaning.”

For more of Dan’s work, go to www.danharder.com.  For information about “Zipperz”, an opera written to Harder’s zippered libretto by composer Nat Stookey, go to www.oebs.org or www.schirmer.com.

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