Isbn: 9781949229691 - windthrow and salvage (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Winthrow and Salvage, Randall Freisinger shifts his always engaging voice to a minor key to focus on aging and loss, on our place in the universal entropy. There is much here about human fallibility, suffering, and sorrow, always examined with insight and empathy. But there are recuperative moments as well, for instance in a small-town slow- pitch tournament with its little world 'closed and precisely composed of forgiveness/ and second chances.' There are also seriocomic ones, like when the Fisher King ends up at the Mayo Clinic. In the closing poem, the poet, to his wife's bemusement, breaks into a dance at breakfast, to an inner tune that has 'great lyrics, a good beat/you can really dance to, better now, / if only for knowing the score.' This is a book for those who know the score-and for those still learning it.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextIn Winthrow and Salvage, Randall Freisinger shifts his always engaging voice to a minor key to focus on aging and loss, on our place in the universal entropy. There is much here about human fallibility, suffering, and sorrow, .