Nice Dumpling - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Writing about topics as varied as lip rings, Nietzsche’s pencil lead, and Uber rides, Peter Waldor finds his way into territory that poets have long explored – memory, history, and the way small details speak to the longings and connections that make us human. This collection offers a fresh, often amusing take on those hallowed themes.

Michael Witmore, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library

The book’s title shows Waldor’s deft use of metaphor, whimsy, humor and tenderness. Nice Dumpling is the name of a street vendor’s stand, taken from a poem exploring the beauty of taking personal responsibility and acting with compassion in the moment. His combination of wit, laugh-out-loud humor and subtle, but pointed political/cultural criticism, delights, as in the deliciously ironic, “Thank God for War,” as does his gift for finding the macro in the micro, as when a poem about a toddler eating a banana becomes a meditation on violence, innocence, injustice and peace; and when a store’s cool air meets warm air in “an invisible avalanche.” These poems find joy amid losses, in appreciating the gifts of the present: “Thank god for the huge/line at the bakery/so we were outside/in sunlight talking,” a wonderful reminder in troubled—or any—times.

April Ossmann (author of Event Boundaries)

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