Take Five: PROSE POEMS BY 5 POETS: by Laura Baird, Deborah Brown, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Richard Jackson, & Susan Thomas

The fact that the title of this book is taken from the great jazz piece written by Paul Desmond for the Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out might suggest something about the structure. Gathered from a couple of years work, we would agree on a rubric--place, travel, philosophical ideas that we would respond to from our own experiences but also keeping in mind the others to create a kind of loose dialogue. "Jazz is about freedom within discipline," Dave Brubeck once said. The book is organized to...