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The Garden of My Saying
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639807659
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Sep 30 2025
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Daniel Morris, Professor of English, Purdue University
To say that Daniel R. Schwarz is an esteemed professor and man of letters is true, but this isn't enough to communicate that which generates his lifelong devotion to words and literature. This collection of poems represents a portion of that energy, as well as his contagious enthusiasm. Scholar, critic, historian, and teacher, in The Garden of My Saying, Schwarz has collected individual poems that for many years he has been publishing in literary journals. These are intimate, particular celebrations of what makes life worth living, even as their author recognizes life's impermanence. Read them and you'll learn of the heart of this man.
-Peter Fortunato, author, World Headquarters
In Schwarz's poems . . . we find a balance between the narrative and the lyrical in which dialogue participates in an overall - ultimately transcendent - fabric of voices that together constitute the poem. The characters' voices in Schwarz's poems stand out as individual expressions that help to conjure a narrative, even as they are absorbed by some lyric exploration that is carried out by the speaker's voice. Schwarz's voices play out the opposition and, at the same time, the mysterious partnership between the narrative and the lyrical, the concrete and the transcendent. . . . The lyric moments of feeling and perception he describes emerge from narrative contexts of setting, situation, and character.
-Helen Maxson, Speculations on the Lyrical and the Narrative Modes in Poems by Daniel R. Schwarz, Westview 26:1 (Spring/Summer 2006), 15-20
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