To Curve [Paperback]

Michael Daley (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

The poems in Michael Daley's new book, To Curve, are full of what inhabits so many of us in the last half of life: Regret.

In "The Moon & Mt. Ranier," Daley imagines picking up two hitchhikers, ghosts of a former time alluded to earlier in the collection:

Just so the days
pass like geese
startled by cloudburst.
Everything comes back,
trudging over frozen ground
of decades. I could be the girl
thumbing a ride, the boy
behind her in windy light.
Now they're huddled in my back seat.
Christ, they sound so hopeless.
I'm no help. I suggest things
even I would never do.

....

Many shorter, more straightforward poems leap from the 'natural' world--"Nettles," "Cloud Work," "Dunlins," "Luna," for example; there's a clarity of vision in these that I admire, but also a quirkiness that sets them apart in an engaging way. --News + Notes, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, March 12, 2009//PoetryFlash.org

Product Details

• Paperback: 92 pages
• Publisher: WordTech Communications (June 16, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934999199
• ISBN-13: 978-1934999196
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,246,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Daley was born in Boston, is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and has an MFA from the University of Washington. In 1983 he published his first collection of poetry, The Straits. His chapbooks include Angels, Original Sin, Horace: Eleven Odes, The Corn Maiden, and Rosehip Plum Cherry. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Hudson Review, Alaskan Quarterly Review, Raven Chronicles, Seattle Review, and on the Writer's Almanac. In 2007 he published Way Out There: Lyrical Essays. In 2008 To Curve came out and in early 2010 Moonlight in the Redemptive Forest with a CD of poems and music arranged and performed by Brad Killion.