Strange Meadowlark. Michael Simms, Michael Simms
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ISBN: 9781933974538 | 100 pages | 3 Mb
- Strange Meadowlark
- Michael Simms, Michael Simms
- Page: 100
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9781933974538
- Publisher: Ragged Sky Press
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Overview
A collection of original poems that travels through grief, love, social justice, art and nature. The book begins with the poet's return to the Texas evangelical culture of his childhood to attend the funerals of his mother and sister. The poet reveals that he's autistic, a survivor of childhood abuse who didn't speak until he was five years old. The title poem "Strange Meadowlark" riffs on his emergence into language through learning how to listen to jazz. The second section of the book explores love through the beauty of the Texas landscape in poems that capture the happiness of childhood despite the presence of the ghost of the poet's sister -- as in the poem "White Rock Lake." The third section offers poems of social conscience. Racism, war, poverty, violence and America's unacknowledged caste structure are presented through personal narrative. In this third section, a prose poem "Civilization and Her Discontents" provides a humorous allegory about the possibility of political change in this country. The fourth and final section brings together these themes of memory, love, loss and the search for justice in poems that focus on the observation of nature. The long poem "Faye Donnelly explains why the dead are in our lives" is a dialogue with a dying wise woman who explains to the poet how to let go of the ghost of his sister and move on with his life. The final poem "Pupa - a meditation on becoming" is a long poem that attempts to make lyric sense of the cycles of life and death.
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