Strange Meadowlark by SIMMs, Michael
Strange Meadowlark by SIMMs, Michael

Strange Meadowlark

Chard deNiord writes, "Michael Simms writes with the courage of a witness and the wisdom of a...
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Author: Michael SIMMs
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Language: English
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Strange Meadowlark by SIMMs, Michael

Strange Meadowlark

$54.35
Strange Meadowlark by SIMMs, Michael

Strange Meadowlark

$54.35
Author: Michael SIMMs
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Chard deNiord writes, "Michael Simms writes with the courage of a witness and the wisdom of a survivor. These poems leap, lament, pierce, transcend, delve, witness, praise, and testify to the curative power of poetry." Simms's new collection travels through grief, love, social justice, art and nature. The book begins with the poet's return to the Texas evangelical culture of his childhood to attend the funerals of his mother and sister. The poet reveals that he's autistic, a survivor of childhood abuse who didn't speak until he was five years old. The title poem "Strange Meadowlark" riffs on his emergence into language through learning how to listen to jazz. The second section of the book explores love through the beauty of the Texas landscape in poems that capture the happiness of childhood despite the presence of the ghost of the poet's sister -- as in the poem "White Rock Lake." The third section offers poems of social conscience. Racism, war, poverty, violence and America's unacknowledged caste structure are presented through personal narrative. The poems of the third section give witness to racism and police brutality. The final two sections bring together these themes of memory, love, loss and the search for justice in poems that focus on the observation of nature. The long poem "Faye Donnelly explains why the dead are in our lives" is a dialogue with a dying wise woman who explains to the poet how to let go of the ghost of his sister and move on with his life. The final poem "Pupa - a meditation on becoming" is a long poem that attempts to make lyric sense of the cycles of life and death.



Author: Michael SIMMs
Publisher: Ragged Sky Press
Published: 09/01/2023
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d
ISBN: 9781933974538

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