Encore - Couverture souple

Adelaide Cummings

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0985569506 ISBN 13 : 9780985569501

Editeur : Windmill Press, 2012

Synopsis

Publication Date: June 1, 2012 Adelaide Cummings is a poet laureate and an award winning poetic phenomenon that just keeps giving. She is still going strong at age 98, as her talent and energy have not waned. She writes what can be described as light verse, light in style but richly written and packed with her dry wit and wry humor, a wisdom and appreciation of life’s pleasures and an acceptance of aging with gratitude for her long, full and bountiful life. It is impossible to open a page of Encore without being amused, touched or inspired. Her poems are addictive and irresistible. Some examples:

Adelaide Cummings' late in life request as expressed in her poem Parting Gift: “Yes, the hour is growing late, and now that I have reached 98, I do not hesitate to state, I don’t expect to procreate. But hear demands I make of fate: “Before I reach the Pearly Gate, bestow upon me one last playmate. How my enjoyment would inflate, were he to prove a reprobate. He can speak in tongues or brogue, this matters not. Just make him rogue!”

Adelaide Cummings' view of prose as expressed in her poem Cause For Wonder: “Who knows why they print this turgid prose. I, who do not hesitate to tread on toes, rate New Yorker “poetry” as I do the Emperor’s clothes.”

Adelaide Cummings' philosophy about living life as expressed in her poem Poetic Leaps: “I’d so much rather take a fall, than not to try to fly at all.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Windmill Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0985569506
• ISBN 13: 9780985569501
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 146
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible