The first winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, this collection reminds readers that poems can be as tangible, as substantial, as redemptive as those things the poet will not let go unspoken in the world. The author's compassionate witness is born out of immersion in bittersweet particulars.
The first winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, this collection reminds readers that poems can be as tangible, as substantial, as redemptive as ...
David Clewell s spirited poems cut through the noise we too often accommodate in our daily lives. Breath by surprising breath, this poet takes us into chambers of the heart that have never been mapped quite this way before. By turns raucous and strangely soothing, narrative and lyrical, Clewell traffics in unlikely and compelling details of our mostly discernible world: a school custodian s role in the burgeoning Space Race, the vastness of abandoned missile silos, the first lawn flamingos, and the living fossil still using a typewriter.
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David Clewell s spirited poems cut through the noise we too often accommodate in our daily lives. Breath by surprising breath, this poet takes us i...
Full of Clewell s distinctive blend of narrative and lyric, as well as his unabashed, idiosyncratic sense of wonder, these poems often spring from unlikely sources: Adam and Eve s Paradisal do-over at the Jersey shore, the misguided promise of tinfoil hats, Uncle Bud on the Moon, Debbie Fuller on Pluto, debatable Bigfoot nomenclature, Richard Nixon s social-media rejuvenation, and a Nebraska policeman s run-in with space aliens who tell him, We want you to believe in us but not too much. In Almost Nothing To Be Scared Of, David Clewell s most expansive work yet, readers will...
Full of Clewell s distinctive blend of narrative and lyric, as well as his unabashed, idiosyncratic sense of wonder, these poems often spring from unl...
