Description
- Kind: Perfectbound
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Date Published: December 2024
- ISBN 978-1-962847-17-9
Praise
“Solonche, an accomplished poet, employs various forms in this compilation, including haiku, prose poem, and free verse. The poems often imaginatively enter into the natural or material world via anthropomorphic similes… Many works have an aphoristic quality that recall Zen koans, and they can be playfully amusing or even silly… A strong set of sympathetic but never sentimental observations.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The tone is established from the outset: wry, wise, sardonic and playful, drawing the reader irresistibly in. Solonche is revealed as a philosopher in the mold of Wittgenstein: aphoristic, charismatic, acerbic and oddly mystical. If you met this book in a bar, you would definitely want to take it home with you and every day thereafter congratulate yourself on how lucky you’ve been. But that is true of all his books.” —David Mark Williams
Excerpt
My Plumber Is a Sculptor
My plumber is a sculptor.
He’s exhibited in the library
and the gallery of the local
college. His mailbox is
a locomotive, correct in
every detail, the cow catcher
facing the road. It’s the only
place where I see the driver
of the postal truck smile.
Author
Nominated for the National Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, J.R. Solonche is the author of 40 books of poetry and coauthor of another. He lives in the Hudson Valley.
