"To Emily Dickinson and The Mesostomatic"by Marc Bauch -- A celebration of poetry, sound, and the curious architecture of the [...] inside the house of verse, where rhyme lines the floors and metaphors bloom on the walls. "To Emily Dickinson and The Mesostomatic" is an imaginative, reverent, and playful ode to poetry itself - its textures, its resonances, and its power to remake our inner and outer [...] this luminous new collection, Marc Bauch channels the ghostly genius of Emily Dickinson while forging a path uniquely his own. Through intricate stanzas, clever constructions, and gently rebellious rhythms, Bauch explores the ways in which poetry refracts sound, sense, and spirit. What results is a poetic dialogue across centuries - intimate, wry, and defiantly alive."The Mesostomatic", a coined term echoing with literary mischief, is at once a structure and a state of mind - a nod to poetic devices like the mesostich and a metaphor for the layered center of creative thought. Bauch invites readers to dwell there, among the "Cloudy Lines" and "Similes askew," where ambiguity is not a flaw but a feature, and every stanza is a doorway to a new dimension of [...] book is not only a tribute to Emily Dickinson's compressed, crystalline style but also a celebration of poetry's musicality. Sound, in Bauch's hands, becomes both subject and substance - a living pulse that animates each verse. He writes not only to be read but to be heard, echoing Emily Dickinson's own "thing with feathers," recast here as a thing with sound.Whether you are a lifelong lover of poetry or a curious newcomer, "To Emily Dickinson and The Mesostomatic" is a compelling invitation to slow down, listen closely, and dwell in possibility. Let Bauch's verses lead you - not to answers, but to echoes. Not to clarity, but to that "lofty View" found only through poetry's particular kind of [...] dwell in all the poetry - it's a louder house than prose.