Lucky Bones (Pitt Poetry Series) by Peter Meinke PDF

By Peter Meinke

In Lucky Bones, Peter Meinke strikes fluidly via unfastened and formal shapes, taking the reader on a travel via the US within the twenty first century: relatives, politics, love, struggle and peace, outdated age and loss of life are checked out in ways in which are wonderful, transparent, and warm-hearted. Lit via flashes of anger and laughter as he surveys his territory from the vantage aspect of outdated age, the poems are, after all, either sane and profound, set to Meinke’s personal music.

 

Consisting of over sixty new poems, the ebook starts with a house-shaped poem a couple of kinfolk in a loved outdated domestic, after which strikes out into the area with poems a few fire-bug, drive-by shootings, and the usually violent human earlier than circling again to the house and a last epitaph. A clear-eyed feeling of loss permeates fortunate Bones, yet now not melancholy: in the course of clash, Meinke’s global is stuffed with ask yourself, and lovely people.

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