Zippy Zappy Diminutive Poetry |
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| Author:
| Acers, Kevin |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4993-4847-7 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2017 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $10.00 |
Book Description:
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In ZIPPY ZAPPY, Oklahoma Book Award finalist Kevin Acers provides readers with almost a hundred very short, untitled poems. Many are haiku-like in tone if not in form. Several read like aphorisms pulled from subversively literary fortune cookies. The moon makes numerous appearances, as does the sun's luminosity, along with more terrestrial aspects of nature and human concerns. Variously playful, ecstatic, dreamy, assuring, surprising, and subdued, the new and selected poems that make...
More DescriptionIn ZIPPY ZAPPY, Oklahoma Book Award finalist Kevin Acers provides readers with almost a hundred very short, untitled poems. Many are haiku-like in tone if not in form. Several read like aphorisms pulled from subversively literary fortune cookies. The moon makes numerous appearances, as does the sun's luminosity, along with more terrestrial aspects of nature and human concerns. Variously playful, ecstatic, dreamy, assuring, surprising, and subdued, the new and selected poems that make up this collection are worth reading and pondering and reading again.[Author royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to a college scholarship fund for Native American students.]