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Unearthed Treasure,
This review is from: To the Archaeologist Who Finds Us (Paperback)
This book of poetry listens with a good ear and a good heart. The best phrases are the ones that make me smile when I read them because they accurately awaken me to my own history on this earth. It is the earthiness, the immediacy of captured moments that makes me want to linger and relive my own life with a greater awareness. I like the crispness of the phrases and the lacing together of images and memories that are vibrant with self exposure.
Underneath the lyrics of this work there is a score playing that is uplifting but also poignant, like the portrait of someone once vibrantly animated and now stilled. Is it a sweet sadness for what we surrender when we die? I don't know what the poet has in mind when he trusts his poetry, but it seems fitting that he pay tribute to the countless lives and moments that have passed through his experience to awaken him to his own mortality. These influences and his keen perception of them have made him a rich man. He trusts what life is offering in every simple detail. I don't want to give the plot of this book away :o) but seriously consider reading this when you have nothing else on your mind. The gift of good poetry like this is that it cracks open vaults and experiments with foregone conclusions. You might want to dance afterwards, or you might want to cry. But if you're paying attention, you'll definitely walk away unrehearsed. The best we nonpoets can do is not to envy the poetic gift but to emulate its surprise. May I be awake when the bird dips low in the sky, the fish leaps, my parent speaks my name for the last time, and everything I do and say falls on a meadow of yielding rebirth.
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