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BOOM: Poems from the Deep

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I've had this book a day and already it is looking worn. I've read favorites to the people I most love. Bet you'll want to as well. This book whispers to your heart what it has always known, but forgot somehow. It feels wonderful to remember. Remembering these truths opens us to the sort of freedom known only to the very young, the very old, and the very wise. Don't miss it.

Mr. Flug has written poems of such insight as to alter our way of thinking, seeing life. Thank you, sir!

Yosy himself is as much a poem as any poem in this book. If you do not know Yosy, you soon will. The colorful cover, with a color photo of Yosy, says this is an approachable, carefree, spirited volume. It is. Once you are inside the book you discover something else: sonic booms, the hallmarks that truthful things have been spoken:

The fool

black is my color
and none is my number
and no one sees my true face.
my silent smile
is all that remains
roaring in empty space...

BOOM!

Unfortunately I haven't the Opportunity to read the book, but knowing Yosy for many many years I am sure it is as deep and as poetic as he is.