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Another Morning
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
ISBN13: 9781646621156
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Published: Jan 10 2020
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Another Morning: Poems by William Minor embodies a premise stated in the first line of one of the poems: All our lives begin and end / with music. Several poems address this theme directly (Genesis, in which the line quoted is found; Our Dance; Full of It, with its song titles; and the extended poem in five parts: The Sounds of Kauai). All of the poems contain their own unique music in terms of rhythm and intonation--providing an engaging, and enhancing, backdrop. In 2011, I was first grand prize winner in a national essay contest, What Music Means to Me, sponsored by RPMDA (Retail print Music Dealers Association). Several of the poems in Another Morning have actually been set to original music I employ when I give readings.
The appeal of music is universal, and these poems reach out to a wide range of readers in another way: they all express aspects of daily life common to both the author and the book's potential audience: the sense of shared existence we all experience in homes in which each room comes to be regarded as sacred. Specific subject matter ranges from fundamental human concerns: friendship, falling in love, longevity in marriage, aging, the decline of physical finesse to philosophical concerns: the nature of time passing, progress (perfecting and perishing); inner versus external existence, sacred and secular love, and contemplation (being a frog on a lily pad).
Extended poems celebrate inspirational thinkers such as poet Charles Peguy and philosopher Ernest Becker--and the author also takes the reader to a tropical island to explore the nature of paradise. I feel that the poems in Another Morning, transform and transcend subject matter and result in skillfully crafted work that will appeal to a wide range of readers and stand the test of time.
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