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High Wire
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639800575
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Nov 29 2021
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The poems in Stephen Anderson's High Wire consistently engage and enthrall the reader, whether visiting Neruda's house and harvesting poems written on leaves or attending to his dying mother in the hospital. The focus of the poems in this collection is truly cosmopolitan, ranging from Milwaukee to Chile, Panama to Paris, Brooklyn to Mexico, with each poem rather like a field of sunflowers lighting the way. As in the title of one of the poems, Looking for Seashells, Anderson is always in quest of that momentary glimpse when reality shows through the surface of creation. Like Karl Wallenda balancing on a tight rope, Anderson nimbly traverses this high wire act, each poem a successful step above the abyss.
- Timothy Walsh, author of When the World Was Rear-Wheel Drive
In High Wire, Stephen Anderson's new and selected poems, we encounter a speaker who dreams for us of seeing life with one's heart in the midst of sheet-metal pipe, oxidized iron clump, Big Mac Wrappers and pizza box and toxic dump. Anderson's early Peace Corps experience in Chile and university teaching in London give the poems political weight and global scope. His poems offer sorrow and hope, believing, in Song of Graffiti, that what is said matters, can stoke a war and, later, entreat peace...turn around a life. This is a poet who balances clear sight and open heart in a high wire act of his own.
- Robin Chapman, author of The Only Home We Know
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