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The Poet's Curse: A Miscellany
Paperback
HumorGeneral PoetryMental Health
ISBN13: 9781948461184
Publisher: Poetry Box Select
Published: Jan 12 2019
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A delightful miscellany of poems on a multitude of subjects in various forms and genres including: ancestral portraits, bestiary, commonplace, complaints, catalogs, concrete, dialog, dreams, ekphrastic, erotica, experimental, found poems, free verse, light poems, imagistic, list poems, lyrical, military, monolog, narrative, nostalgia, object poems, odes, pentastichs, persona poems, philias, phobias, philosophies, portraits, prose poems, romantic, satire, sonnets, stream-of-consciousness, triptychs, work . . .
The Poet's Curse
Everything the poet sees
or hears, thinks, feels or imagines
gets captured, interpreted and shoe-horned
into a damn poem
whether they like it or not.
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Michael Estabrook's The Poet's Curse is a must-read collection by a particularly perceptive observer of our often-cockeyed world. Wayne Hogan, Poet &Artist
Estabrook is a master jeweler, and each day, each moment, of his life is a small, glittering stone waiting to be shaped into something iridescent and precious. John Sweet, Poet
I never tire of his humorous, often self-deprecating, yet poignant poetry. Glenn Cooper, Poet & Collagist
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