Follow Her - Softcover

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"Follow Her" is cause for rejoicing. Here, one of the fabled lost works of Orpheus - that first poet, first musician, first singer of the divine - has surely been found! This book is vastly more than a sequence of Orphic poems. In Greg Simon’s stunning sonnets, the voice of Orpheus himself rises from the pale silence of its pages. The voice of Eurydice - “she who is the stream of arrows ripping through every man” - takes flight from its pages. Eros itself sings to us through these sonnets - songs of ecstasy, sorrow, despair, madness. Yes, madness. These ravishingly painful poems are insane as only the greatest love poems can be insane, “bolting awake and swirling.” At the end, we know the poet has given everything he has to give, has - as sacrifice - laid himself down at poetry’s “blue doors of love.”~Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita...surely am enjoying it! I loved the book when I first read it! but now I am taking it in on an even deeper level, re-informed by this spirit-body sustaining recovery allowed by your recent life-giving heart operation. I can see how your near-failing heart in some sense put you way out over the line in a way that was taking power from places not usually available to us. Ah, so glad you got these incredible poems!~Tess Gallagher, author of "Moon Crossing Bridge" and "Is, Is Not."

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