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    612-822-4611

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Preserving the Past for the Present

Preserving the Past for the Present

Allen, Terry

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639806679
ISBN13: 9781639806676
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Nov 16 2024
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The witty and devastatingly beautiful rush of words in Terry Allen's poems mimic the way time and memory flood our senses leaving reflections that crystalize a well-lived life. This book is a sum of folk speaking their stories, the words they utter and the ones they can't, or as Allen writes, everyone communicating / just not very well thank you. This collection is Twain-like in its ironic and humorous look at both relatives and strangers who are as genuine / as a large glass of oat milk / served next to a heaping plate / of imitation crab and good people / we might recognize, if we care to look. Intermixed with the local color of Allen's experience and observations are Pinteresque intimations of the menace others make in the world and the absurdity they leave behind. Throughout, Allen leaves us with a strong sense of a past that shapes the present, in a world where people / live with mercy and compassion and where the one word that counts is empathy.

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