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The Unnumbered Anniversaries: Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.00
ISBN13: 9781594981715
Publisher: Fernwood Press
Published: Sep 9 2025
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Every day is an anniversary of sorts, yet we choose to celebrate, memorialize, or mourn only a few. What about the other days of our lives, those that will never merit Silver, Gold, or Diamond, yet when added together-joy mingled with sorrow, heartbreak leavened by laughter-ultimately constitute this thing we call life? These are The Unnumbered Anniversaries Kurt Olsson seeks to commemorate within these unflinching poems and pages.
At heart, The Unnumbered Anniversaries is a testament to the ordinary, those fragments of time and place, of people and things, that distance and reflection somehow transform into the extraordinary. The empty soda can that doubled as an ashtray. The stray dog that shadowed you to school and back. The Willie Mays catch you made that summery afternoon....
Relatable. Affecting. Witty. And scrubbed of all pretension... The Unnumbered Anniversaries might well change your idea of not just what poetry is, but all that poetry can be. Indeed, this is not a collection to be read once and set aside with a pleasant nod or two, but rather an experience you will return to with cherished frequency. As Olsson observes in his slyly subversive penultimate entry, At some point, you will thank God whether you believe or not. Amen!
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