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On Sunday Afternoons

On Sunday Afternoons

Becker, Richard

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.99

ISBN10: 1646628284
ISBN13: 9781646628285
Publisher: Finishing Line Pr
Published: May 13 2022
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Despite its unassuming low-key title, On Sunday Afternoons is a collection of vividly stimulating surprises-whether of natural description, emotional understanding, or bristling with tactful literary reference. What I especially admire is how in poem after poem Becker startles a reader into refreshed appreciation of what we think of as the ordinary world. Ordinary yes, but extraordinary too in the near-haiku glimmer and glow with which the poet animates small corners of the natural world. In one poem Local plovers call-/ and-answered/ from the power poles; in another night animals' voices rise cantabile falsetto/ in mock solemnity. She cranes her neck. (That Becker is also a musician-composer enriches his poetic brew.) On Sunday Afternoons also contains longer meditations rich in human-often familial-feeling, or poems that lean into more surreal animations, or revisit a remembered Brooklyn: washed up on the shoals of the Gowanus. Lucid and musically realized, these poems emerge from what Becker calls This center of imagining, a place in which the bright sky of his own imagination is at home.

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