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Feelings and Promises

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The poetry of Glenn A. Fenster is carefully crafted, elegant, lyrical, and memorable. Feelings And Promises is a superb introduction to Fenster's abilities and skills as a weaver of words, images, and feelings. Time And Space: Summers first rain,/Words drown./Obscurity creates disbelief,/Tears act as exoneration/A pain death could cause/And love could give./Standing in shadows/Swallowed by the light,/As recycled paper/Years fasten themselves/To pass as thorns/And ill advised moments/Only to be balanced/By the offing/That you pervade./Landscaped lives/Obtaining the malicious possessions/Time spaced by inconsistences/Of a man's life/We choose or become/Accept and be stagnate/Emotionally secured by either/We tend to lean upon,/Time and space.

"FEELINGS & PROMISES" is just a wonderful collection of contemporary poetry. I found it to be insightful, soulful and thought provoking. As a fellow poet of "BARE BREASTED HEART" I could relate to the written words of this wonderful collection.

So much poetry is written in code where you really have to hesitate and wonder if you are comprehending the poetry as the author intended. This collection althought thought provoking bring you full circle to the intention of the writer.

I loved it and I encourage further writing from this poet! Would make a great gift or a personal treat to oneself.

Hi, I have read a few of my Uncle Glenn A. Fenster's poems even though he doesn't approve of me reading his poetry. I think his poetry is great. It expresses his emotions and feelings greatly. I truly like his work. Not because he's my uncle but because he as a true talent.

From, Stephanie 15 yr. old niece of Glenn Fenster.

Reaction to other people's poetry isn't just black and white, it can be gray or rainbow colors, too. In this modest perfect-bound chapbook(69pages) you find poems that are varied, free verse and formed/rhymed suiting the particular need of the poem, speaking of our times and his insights, and sometimes reach didactic proportions. Some lines in the lyrical poems are enviable: "Air Closes until there was no place between Softness and sadness" ("So Long" pg. 3) "I suffer from the vagabond images that sculpt reality" ("Diction" pg. 6) "These lives become conspicous in the halls of hollowed hearts..." ("Controlled by Closure" pg 17). There are many more such moving moments, My favorite poem is the last one called "What Would Happen" a didactic poem, but concisely suggesting alternative living, like: "What would happen, if? "You see your parents instead of hiding" "You walk from the ledge instead of jumping"

and so on. There is a great deal of insight and recognition of the human condition we all encounter in this collection by a poet who has been writing 22 years and now only has dared to present a body of work in formal print. I"m glad t oadd ot to my poetry shelf.

In a collection of poems inspired by some of the concepts fundamental to relationships between lover and loved. Glenn A. Fenster's FEELINGS AND PROMISES taps into the human experience of love, sex, death, connection, loss, hope, mystery and more.

The poem's subjects range from the very personal to the broadly elemental. He describes both beautiful scenery and complex inner emotions, sometimes within the same verse. This is an interesting collection that feels very accessible to those of us who might not read poetry regularly. At one poem per page, this slim volume of 69 pages offers a lot of material to explore. FEELINGS AND PROMISES delivers Fenster's view of the world, and in the way of poetry, asks us to consider our own.

Feelings and Promises: The poetry of Glenn A. Fenster,69 pages of poetry, 3 pages Table of Contents in numerical order and 3 pages of acknowledgements is dedicated to his brother Randy. Published by Gray matter Publishing & Design Co., Athens, GA. Glenn A. Fenster's Feelings and Promises is a fine philosophical collection of poems which speak out with an independent voice that shapes his creations the way that wind sculpts soft sand into visions of art. Among these excellent works are poems which etch picturesque cells of life. I particularly enjoyed the following: Dying Rose Petals ("My tongue felt your exquisite body reach out...") (p.12) Decades Have Passed... of this poem, it is as if Glenn is meditating with a distant Zulu shaman and is being taught secrets from the great book of mystery about the reason he must write. (p.23) Children ("Echoed sounds of passing trains / Become children turned into statues") (p.68)

Here are poems from a very personal perspective. The word "I" used in many of Glenn's writings, lets the reader know just how personal Glenn's "Feelings and Promises" are crafted into each poem. This book is recommended to read during those times when you search for answers within yourself, and also to understand as though looking inward, through another person's mind, just what that search has discovered.

Gary Elton Warrick December 29, 1999

Create your own picture, captured through his eyes! These are the words leading into this collection of poetry by Glenn Fenster. Glenn has a unique way of drawing the reader into the soul of his poetry. Glenn's poems sing the joys and pain of life and how these experiences move us through time. His words seek to make us more aware of simple things in our world. they offer us a challenge to seek thought in pure form, to use the time we are to benefit all and leave a legacy for those who come after us. This is a wondeful, thought provoking collection, worthy of reading again and again, as I have done.

Glenn's poetry does the kind of emotional work we expect of good poetry

I read most of the book, and thought that the poems were written out in a very, thought provoking, honest, interesting tone. While reading some of the poems, I was totally able to relate similar experiences from my own life which made them even more enjoyable. Overall, I enjoyed the book and would highly recommend it.