A ‘best of’ pick of 2012 Canadian poetry books by rob mclennan
2013 winner for Excellence in Book Design in Canada for Poetry, awarded by the Alcuin Society
Finalist for the 2014 Leipzig Prize · Best International Book Design
"Mark Goldstein's long poem Form of Forms takes as its subject (to paraphrase poet Betsy Warland) Motherloss. It deals with the emotional and bureaucratic nature of identity from the often bewildered and fractured point of view of someone who was relinquished as an infant. [Here,] Goldstein is seeking “information” on the self through the layers and fields of forms one must look through to gain access to that information. These layers and forms are what make up the framework of the poem, and the reader is brought face-to-face with the slippery nature of identity as seen through the lens of adoption." – Jay MillAr
Form of Forms
Form of Forms: 8 X 10 inches, 112 pages, perfect bound into felt weave wraps with flaps
Trade Edition
ISBN 978-1-927040-06-5
BookThug, 2012