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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
612-822-4611
Wild Wild Roses

Wild Wild Roses

Nibbelink Worley, Cynthia

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1523895756
ISBN13: 9781523895755
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 1 2015
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Cynthia Nibbelink Worley's poems have a certain simplicity, directness. They are wistful, honest, bold, yet lyrical. At times child-like, almost naïve, they nonetheless occasionally allow a woman with womanly rage to surface. From remembering ...the sweet scent of ripe apples/fallen among clover and wild wild roses.../in the cool lemon of springtime to exasperation with Rush CrazyAss and Sarah Palin, WILD WILD ROSES both celebrates and laments a rural upbringing, where ...violets sleep close to grass/subdued as rain..., while always seeking to name the thing beneath the name of the thing(John Ciardi): I can only write a poem.../a stupid poem.../...that is at best/...an excuse/for the poem/I will always be trying/to write....

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