Deep Well |
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| Author:
| Bellm, Dan |
| ISBN: | 978-1-944884-16-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2017 |
| Publisher: | Lavender Ink
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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Poetry. California Interest. DEEP WELL, Dan Bellm's fourth collection of poems, is an extended homage and elegy for a mother lost to Alzheimer's Disease in 2010. The sequence is a book of memory and consolation, combining formal precision with plain speech, and interwoven with Bellm's translations of six related poems from Spanish and French. Poet David St. John writes, "These lyrics of memoriam and these deep songs (in Lorca's sense) of mourning seem almost to etch themselves onto the...
More DescriptionPoetry. California Interest. DEEP WELL, Dan Bellm's fourth collection of poems, is an extended homage and elegy for a mother lost to Alzheimer's Disease in 2010. The sequence is a book of memory and consolation, combining formal precision with plain speech, and interwoven with Bellm's translations of six related poems from Spanish and French. Poet David St. John writes, "These lyrics of memoriam and these deep songs (in Lorca's sense) of mourning seem almost to etch themselves onto the air. Keep this book at hand; hold its passages close. This is an essential collection of poetry."