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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Like Buddha-Calm Bird

Like Buddha-Calm Bird

Rabas, Kevin

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1732241023
ISBN13: 9781732241022
Publisher: Sagerity Pr Llc
Published: Aug 31 2018
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Kevin Raba's new collection of poems and stories, Like Buddha-Calm Bird, improves on and riffs off the variable rhythms of the stories we create, revise, and live. Writing the music inherent in changing narratives of the ordinary and extraordinary, Rabas illustrates what a fellow Kansas poet meant when he said, Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business, anyone who is alive is caught up in the imminences, the doubts mixed with the triumphant certainty, of poetry. Whether writing about Ugandan rain, the Bossa Nova, a middle school drummer, or the T.Rex at a museum, Rabas puts his ear to what wants to be said, then moseys into words slow and deliberate, or explodes into language fast and on the wing. In a sense, much of this collection leads up to the final section, Eclipse, showing us how we partner with the life force to co-create this world: the breath of God/comes in a cloud and an open/mouth whistles/over and past tall grasses/ from dust, remakes the world. Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Kansas Poet Laureate 2009-13, and author of Everyday Magic: Fieldnotes on the Mundane and Miraculous.

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