A House for Last Year's Summer Poems |
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| Author:
| Hermsen, Terry |
| ISBN: | 978-1-947504-01-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2017 |
| Publisher: | Bottom Dog Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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Terry Hermsen�s new book ranges from bicycles to baseball, children to elders, Ohio rivers to the Strait of Magellan, offering �words like stepping stones� that lead us into a world gone deep and strange, redolent with memory, association, and feeling. Hermsen�s mindful attention�intense yet delicate�yields crafty, loamy poems in forms from sonnets to shaped poems to riddles. The surprises�of language, imagery, and insight�are...
More DescriptionTerry Hermsen�s new book ranges from bicycles to baseball, children to elders, Ohio rivers to the Strait of Magellan, offering �words like stepping stones� that lead us into a world gone deep and strange, redolent with memory, association, and feeling. Hermsen�s mindful attention�intense yet delicate�yields crafty, loamy poems in forms from sonnets to shaped poems to riddles. The surprises�of language, imagery, and insight�are many, and the rewards are rich.
--Jeff Gundy, author of Abandoned Homeland