The Sleeping Mermaid

Literature & Fiction

Rob Couteau

Poetry

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"Novelist and literary enthusiast Rob Couteau brings readers part of his love with 'The Sleeping Mermaid,' a book of flowing poetry and thought that asks plenty of questions and offers plenty of answers. 'The Sleeping Mermaid' is a poetry collection well worth considering.' - Midwest Book Review. 
 "In Couteau's work there is no phoniness, no artifice for the sake of artifice-though in the great French tradition this poet knows so well, there is some art for the sake of art. Couteau does not venture into realms of obscurity where meaning is confined to the interior of a Klein bottle; his poems all have direct force, subjects, even verbs. He is intent on having his readers share in his observations, whether it be his artful retelling and reinterpretations of Native American story and song, or his appraisal of how a woman parades across the avenue. He does not ever sacrifice ordinary sense for an extra-ordinary significance. Instead, he speaks with fervor, with something to say, with something he wants us to hang onto and in the process come to an understanding of why it matters not just to him but should matter to us. [...] I think it was William Carlos Williams who said that poetry is belief. Couteau believes in belief, believes that poetic worth is measured in faithfulness to what is, what has been, and what could be. These are his talismans; these are the points where he begins and ends. His poetic excursions take us to many places: to the Paris of Rimbaud and Picasso, to the Native North Americans, to mythology and history and how the woman he is encountering is seducing him as he seduces her (and us), and finally, how alone, the cosmos plays itself out at 3 a.m. when the only lap dog is memory." - Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno (author of The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles, and E.E. Cummings: A Biography), from his Introduction to The Sleeping Mermaid.

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The Sleeping Mermaid

The Sleeping Mermaid. Second Revised Edition.