Permafrost - Couverture souple

Powell, Gary V

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798888382370

Editeur : Finishing Line Press, 2023

Synopsis

Gary V. Powell's Permafrost is a rich and sensual meditation on aging, parenting, romantic love, and the inexorable passage of time. From the lawn's first cut in spring to its final cut in fall, the poet urges readers to take nothing for granted, "neither the greening of/my glowing embers maple/nor the thorn from old-world rose." In poems written for a son who has chosen a high-risk combat role in the military, Powell both admires the boy's courage while fearing for his safety, noting that: "Lean as blades forged in flame/Army Airborne Rangers/ prefer heat to cold/would rather burn than freeze." Love for a spouse is celebrated not with flowers and Hallmark cards but in the preparation of Tuesday tacos: "I work from scratch, kneading masa/ for tortillas like I needed your breasts/the first time we lay together/ flesh to flesh, tequila to margarita." In the eponymous poem. geologic time is compared to the forty years since a daughter's birth: "all those years between/no more than a/glint of sunlight/off a liquifying glacier." As Powell observes in the closing poem, "(B)ut nothing is without cost/not seed sewn in bare patches/fertilizer dearly applied, or/bad decisions made in spring." Here are poems from a seasoned author bursting with wisdom and humor and shining with light under the shadow of impending darkness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gary V. Powell, a former lawyer, is the author of prize-winning poetry and short fiction. He lives with his beautiful wife and two intrepid dogs near the shores of lovely Lake Norman, North Carolina. His chapbook, Super Blood Wolf Moon, won Kallisto Gaia Press's 2020 Contemporary Poetry Prize. His poem "5 AM," which appears in Kakalak 2022 (Moonshine Review Press) received a nomination for a Pushcart Prize. His poem, "On the Night of Your Deployment," was recently elected as a runner-up for the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition and is forthcoming in Southword in 2023. Mr. Powell's short fiction has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize as well as the O'Henry Prize. A 2023 deGroot Foundation Writer of Note, winner of the 2022 Press 53/Prime Number short fiction prize, and a finalist or honorable mention (twice for the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize) for numerous other fiction awards, his work appears or is forthcoming in Carvezine, The Thomas Wolfe Review, The North Carolina Literary Review, Ocotillo Review, Prime Number, Atticus Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Best New Writing 2015, and Sleep is a Beautiful Color: the 2017 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Finishing Line Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798888382370
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 46
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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