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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Spring Mills: Poems

Spring Mills: Poems

Schneider, Mike

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1933974516
ISBN13: 9781933974514
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Mar 1 2023
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Spring Mills, a small town in rural, central Pennsylvania, becomes in these poems by Mike Schneider a gathering place for four generations of a family over a century of time. Schneider takes readers to where a grandfather recalls using a hand-crank to start his Model T-shining image of youth & freedom-and Guernseys in a pasture bellow to be fed. Readers learn how father and son form links in a chain of manual transmission, / hands-on sequenced pattern of the letter H, and the poet's sonic facility opens our ears to the metallic / industrial click / of shifting gears. With these poems, we also go to where physicists search among what's fizzy out there in the universe-not only for elusive cosmological dark matter but also to hear our inner voices, human dark matter. In Once Upon a Time, a remarkable marriage of poetry with skilled science writing, the Big Bang is an unfolding like a rose in bloom and Love is evolution of the cosmos. What else can we do?-a thought the poem answers with longing for, perhaps, a simpler time, a Spring Mills of Summer evening quietness. A breeze. / The big tree across the street. / Everything made sense.

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