RUSSIAN HILL Storm Year

	RUSSIAN HILL Storm Year Poetry: a gift of place, mood and vision for a cold wet night, from Russian Hill, San Francisco.
the book 64 pages paperbound 0-915090-17-1 $11 buy now	by Elihu Blotnick an Audio Book Club Selection
the audio 1 CD 28 minutes read by the author 0-915090-75-9 $11 buy now	"Blotnick's voice is soft and deep like the fog that so often swirls around Russian Hill's summit, shrouding panoramic views with a veil of white and turning the hill in on itself. The poems start by looking outward, but as they are read the listener is taken deeper into Russian Hill's tiny byways, its history, its rumbling and grumbling cable car tracks and, ultimately, deep into the poet's mind. 'The view outward opens each mind to itself, then the hill becomes an ark of inward exploration,' Blotnick says." Sandra Ann Harris, San Francisco Examiner, 1997
mp3 preview	Brush Strokes A line of license plates like a hinged snake rising to hiss at the view, tempers boiling like radiators all the way to the top, where manicured travelers wait to weave themselves dizzy downhill, hovering first for a view of three bridges linking peninsula mountains across blue valleys of bay. Russian Hill is a sea rock of starfish escaping flatworms. The loose bricks of Lombard Street clatter like rolling stones in a shallow stream bed. Cable cars come the steeper way. The only hills west are waves. © 1983, 96, 2005 Elihu Blotnick
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