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Please Hold
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781645991779
Publisher: Encircle Publications, LLC
Published: Apr 21 2021
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Please Hold there's melody, jazzy dissonance, flashes of tonal change, freshness of sound and image. Consider hummingbirds/ buzz like balloons' loose lips, and what if/ from the ugliest mouth on the corner, love stuck/out its bent lightning tongue? As old Bruce in Sonnet on Air says, only motion and cognition matter. Please Hold is full of both, its music alive with the snicker of oboes, inspired puns, silvery thuds, cries and laughter, pain and disconcerting beauty.
-Patricia Corbus, winner of the
2015 Off the Grid Poetry prize for Finestra's Window
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Please Hold's scintillant wit and virtuoso imagination enliven and mourn pandemic's hermitage, its slow kind of rain. When you've gone a bit crazy...sequestered, touch and go have lost their meanings, when fear thumbs glissandos/up your bone xylophone, gargoyles grow eloquent, God contours love with dark, and truth produces its green heresies: When we fall sick, the teeter totters, and weeds inherit the earth. As rumors and lies surround us, these eclectic, ethical poems push back-it's a shady business, so here come the pines.
-Eleanor Wilner, winner of the
Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement
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