Swallowing the Light
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639801886
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Nov 23 2022
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
- John Sibley Williams, Author of Scale Model of a Country at Dawn
Swallowing the Light opens its aperture to the harsh and the lovely in many corners of the world and close to home. These poems are threaded through with alert detail - sun reflects off flat-screen TVs tied to mule backs in a city medina. Fresh blood coats a cheetah's whiskers and a temple's pink limestone floor. Nothing is too large nor small for this poet's wide-ranging attention. John Schneider witnesses his world, our world, with compassion and precision.
- Molly Fisk, Author of The More Difficult Beauty, and Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow
John Schneider's Swallowing the Light is a singular collection of poems that have all of the immediacy of a photograph and all of the texture and depth of beautifully played music. Detail is carefully selected, and images delicately etched. Some of the poems are about the ordinary, others about the extraordinary, but they all carry the force of reality carefully observed and exquisitely rendered. These are poems I return to, and each time I pay them a visit, I find something new and remarkable.
- Thomas H. Ogden, Author of This Will Do...
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