Small Sovereign - Softcover

Goldman, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1950475166 ISBN 13: 9781950475162

Verlag: Homestead Lighthouse Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

In Small Sovereign, his second full-length collection, poet Michael Favala Goldman draws on experience as a remodeling carpenter, a jazz musician, a Danish translator, a gardener and a parent, to draw us into greater awareness of life's minute pains and victories from numerous points of view. "We are all sharing atoms, at least/.../like the sea mixes with the sky/words do not keep them apart." The poems explore the paradox of personal power and powerlessness, using everyday experience as a door to the universal. "The organization has its priorities/which do not include delight." Goldman invites the reader to join him in mundane and transformational experiences, such as picking up a hurt elk, walking by a train-car diner, riding an escalator, touring fields of Verona, making soup for a sick friend, gluing a broken table, and choosing flooring. "All that separates you/from your surroundings/is your imagination/of yourself being who you are." The poems of Small Sovereign are short, direct, ironic, touching, and get richer with multiple readings. "don't expect me to stand in the way/I'm small everywhere/except in my little life/where I am a clumsy giant/trying desperately not/to destroy my own city." As a collection, the poems inhabit the space between the material world and emotion-based relationships, placing ourselves starkly in this gap, with the responsibility for bridging it, amid progress and failures: "it's almost too much, growing/a love that consumes everything."

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In 1971, Michael Goldman co-founded The London Scrabble League, shortly after the inaugural National Scrabble Championship. Six years later, he won the tournament. He was the highest game scorer in 1981 and won the Reg Lever Cup during the 1984-85 league season, which included the highest word score (BRIQUETS, for 284 points). In 1982, he was the fi rst winning contestant on Channel 4's Countdown and remained champion for another fi ve episodes. Michael championed an open, expansive style of play which led to high-scoring games.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Homestead Lighthouse Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1950475166
• ISBN 13: 9781950475162
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 102
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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