Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Subjects & Themes - Places

JV Brummels' latest collection is frontpew@paradise is Brummels' best work to date; while the poems--as in his earlier collections, 614 Pearl, Cheyenne Line, City at War, Book of Grass, among others--focus upon the daily and particular concerns of the Great Plains and of ranch life, frontpew places Brummels' readers up close and personal into the sermon that a long life may be. The poems are not didactic by any means, but they are wise and contemplative, as the long road to paradise may be paved.

The haunting poetry of The Ghosts of Babylon is as near to the crucible of war as you can get without wearing Kevlar and camouflage.

Every war triggers the question--what's war like? The Ghosts of Babylon offers eyewitness accounts of warriors who lost their innocence dueling in the sands of the Iraqi inferno or fighting in the chilling Afghan mountains or on the khaki-colored plains. Wounds enshrouded under the bandages of headlines and sound bites will never bridge the gap between soldier and civilian.

Every war triggers the question--what's war...

Some would say that Lunar-k is a mischievous fairy that wishes she were a beautiful mermaid. However Lunar-k wittingly describes herself as just a nixi on her own individual journey of faith. Peace.

The poems in this collection seek to represent the polysemous trajectories of one person's effort to create a life of substance. A port call, indeed sea duty in general, is often a singular, formative event, for good or ill. It shades and informs all future experiences, whether closely or loosely related to the original. These poems, therefore, are arranged not by seasons, or chronology, but by port of call, an arrangement that mimics the way the mind forms lasting connections between experiences and their meanings.

Giving Ground pulses with traffic and teems with life, leading us through tangled streets, intertwined lives. We find a place of overgrown gardens, alleys in bloom, pheasants in flight, rabbits, stray cats, and Spanish love songs, a place where the ordinary appears in an extraordinary light. With deft narrative strokes, Giving Ground reveals a place and its people, lives balanced on the shifting ground of language and culture. Like the place, Lynn Knapp's poems are wry, real, and poignant.

About the Author:

Lynn M. Knapp is a poet,...

'In Mark Mahemoff's Urban Gleanings the routine of the urban commute, punctured by fragile incidents and ruminations, is interspersed with poems drumming against mortality, such as the refugees whose -corpses washed to shore / all in the same boat-. Many poems are shaded by nostalgia and a tinkering unease: an old garage where -dreams often end up in mothballs-, parents and children cagily circling each other, or watching balloons -disappear into their past-. As well as these segmented descriptions of daily life demarcated by a crowded metropolis, two long centos chronicle some...