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I'll Say This about You
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639805242
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Aug 15 2024
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-George Drew
In Mick Kennedy's I'll Say This About You the poet invites us to stride with him through the landscapes of the mind as he explores man's sense of consciousness and his place in nature, translating the human condition and nature into breathtaking song. Acknowledging himself a syntax junky in his nod to Frank O'Hara, Kennedy is likewise a grand master of poetic form and sound. The poems resonate with us because we sense something of our own creative experience in every stanza. What a wonderful glance at the human spirit-a splendid celebration by one of our best poetic voices.
-Ted Higgs, author of A Love Embargo and Scoring the Darkness
Mick Kennedy's I'll Say This about You has been a long time coming but it's worth the wait. Every poem here is distinct, written with evocative passion and a sensibility that's raw, not cooked; yes, there's a sestina, but it's a monologue in the voice of Kerouac, and there are sonnets, but their rhymes are innovatively slant. Kennedy shows homage to Lowell, O'Hara, and Frank Stanford, but the music, the images, the energy, and the feelings of these imaginative poems are his alone. Readers will want to return to these strong, engaging poems again and again.
-Matt Brennan, author of End of the Road and Snow in New York: New and Selected Poems
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