The Way of Water is a sensitive, charming, and often witty look at life in the mountains of Northern California. Riedell uses a tender voice to reveal the complexity of seemingly simple moments. These are poems that seek meaning in the struggles of life, love and dental work.
The Way of Water is a sensitive, charming, and often witty look at life in the mountains of Northern California. Riedell uses a tender voice to reveal...
Too many book lovers fall into a cycle of buying books and stacking them in piles without ever quite getting around to reading them. The Japanese even have a word for it, tsundoku. Fear not, dear reader Michael Riedell's Small Talk & Long Silences can help break that habit because you can easily complete the whole volume in single sitting. Categorize these poems however you like-scribbles, ditties, doohickeys, quips, quotes, rants, jokes, verses, curses, aphorisms, witticisms, tidbits, epigrams, quick rhymes, meaningless lines, semi-serious tanka and haiku, or just plain buffoonery-they all...
Too many book lovers fall into a cycle of buying books and stacking them in piles without ever quite getting around to reading them. The Japanese even...