The Pure Land - Softcover

Krizek, Ed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1646620186 ISBN 13: 9781646620180

Verlag: Finishing Line Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

These are poems of action. Their locale is the human heart. Their atmosphere is the contemplative mind. They work like a force of gravity, drawing the reader to an interior continent—a pure land where the poet feels and learns as he contemplates life in its richness, complexity, sorrow and transcendence. In this small book, there are many points of contact for the reader: nature’s profusion of forms, love for the departed, despair, transcendence, the passion of families, Lucifer holding a red carnation, chicken livers, rabbits, birds of prey, inescapable oscillations of bright and dark, and a meal of lamb chops for a dying friend. Death is here in many guises, but so is rebirth, as both paradox and irony arise in their meeting. In the end, one gets the sense that it cost the poet a great deal to write these poems. There are great rewards in reading them.

—William Van Buskirk, “This Wild Joy that Thrills Outside the Law”



The poems in Ed Krizek’s The Pure Land address the reader directly about misery, joy and the mundane; about mortality and family and most of all, the nature of memory. His unpretentious language is accessible but the poems reward multiple readings. Poet and narrator may not be one and the same, but they are well acquainted and cooperate to produce lines that astonish, disturb and comfort.

—David Kozinski, Tripping Over Memorial Day and Loopholes

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ed Krizek holds a BA and MS from University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA and MPH from Columbia University. For over twenty years Ed has been studying and writing poetry. Ed enjoys writing that comes from the heart and particularly likes the work of Billy Collins, Ted Kooser, and Czeslaw Milosz, Adam Zagajewski, and Li-Young Lee among many others. Ed writes for the reader who is not necessarily an initiate into an exclusive poetry community. He likes to connect with his readers on a personal level. This collection is an attempt to do just that.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1646620186
• ISBN 13: 9781646620180
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 42
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Deutschland