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All The Air In The Room by John Ackerman
Regular price
$30.00
Ulster Park, NY: Parlor Media, 2025
Hardcover, light blue dust jacket printed in full color. Color illustrations.
All the Air in the Room is not just a book — it’s a dreamscape to explore.
With language both heartfelt and strong, John Paul Ackerman invites readers into a liminal space where poems appear as prayers, odes, spells, and troves whose treasures lie just within reach. These poems dissolve the known, guiding us through the mystery zone that hovers at the edge of perception.
All the Air in the Room doesn’t ask to be read — it asks to be entered, like warmth into water, like breath into air — until there’s no telling what was you, and what was poem.
With language both heartfelt and strong, John Paul Ackerman invites readers into a liminal space where poems appear as prayers, odes, spells, and troves whose treasures lie just within reach. These poems dissolve the known, guiding us through the mystery zone that hovers at the edge of perception.
All the Air in the Room doesn’t ask to be read — it asks to be entered, like warmth into water, like breath into air — until there’s no telling what was you, and what was poem.
