Kerwick
Attach It To Earth
Daniel Kerwick
Part Vachel Lindsay/part Hart Crane, Danny Kerwick is a vagabond poet with a keen eye and music in his DNA (his granddad was a respected jazz musician). His references range from Hugh MacDiarmid to Buddy Guy to the Three Stooges. What sets him apart from most of those who practice “Spontaneous Bop Prosody” is the dead-on accuracy of his observations and no-b.s. insights. Not only that, but Danny gets PLACE as do few others, whether his native Rochester, his beloved New Orleans, or Chicago and other stops on the itinerant poet’s circuit. He can distill the local into a few lines, as in “New Orleans Mambo”: plaster barge-board brick / gossip- strewn / and magnificently dilapidated / nothin' plumb in this town / yea you right. The title poem hips us to what this book is all about: we shoulder earth . passion / & tomfoolery . stretched / to the sky.
John Roche
From the book:
Ontario
in memory of Mary Patricia Kerwick
in half-light she appears
before the sun
delicate feet leave impressions
on shoreline of Ontario
the quiet is savored
chatter of children
echo in her thoughts
dark blue water
submerged within it
pulse of the unknown
thunder blinking
from Canada
she blesses the homeless
dead asleep on the beach
the Genesee runs north
replenishing their
cloudy dreams
in the tide
voices of men departing
will they return
in time for table set
a fever to be cared for
a prayer before breaking bread
none of this can be claimed
carried by the wind
but in the hearts and eyes
of those who speak her name
across the river
dream life real life
summerville memory
of dream
the sun appears on the horizon
she returns to her own immortal sleep
Attach It To Earth
is a 56 page hand-sewn paper book with spine - $14.00.
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