Sky Brightly Picked by Jess Mynes

Skysill Press is pleased to announce the publication of Jess Mynes's Sky Brightly Picked.
96 pages. ISBN 978-1-907489-00-6
£8.95 / $15.00
Sky Brightly Picked is Jess Mynes's first full length collection. Rooted in the poet's responses to the work of Mark Rothko and the landscape of rural Massachusetts, these concise, witty, and deftly worked poems bring us 'other / kinds of knowing'. Possessed of a fresh and distinctive style, Jess shows in this book that he knows instinctively how to 'give a line muck / to sense about':

Sky Brightly Picked accumulates. An irreducible hope for exact details. Striations of seasonal light, prismic silence.
(John Coletti)

Irrepressible, that urge to form the irreducible poem. Jess Mynes has my sympathy, my admiration.
(Clark Coolidge)

No. 14, 1960

harbor light stains
blue-black scored
docks where fleeting
geese get figured
space in pose whites
surrounding brown

No. 61 (Rust and Blue) {Brown, Blue, Brown on Blue}, 1953

blue is difficult

right up your up
yours to do list

a used to useless world

brown-blue
blue-brown

the crown's yours

(kindness of Sam Ward
Editor, Skysill Press )