Some of you know
I am a small publisher, as well as a writer. Some of you know that the most recent title I've issued is Phil Hey's new and selected poems, How It Seems To Me. Some of you have already seen me brag and brag about the book. Yet it is not bragging, is it, if others keep a similar opinion? Ann Stapleton, over at the NewPages book review, holds How It Seems To Me in equally high regard. This is how her review opens:
“I want to talk about things I love,” begins Phil Hey’s poem “At the river’s edge,” but this line might speak for all the work here. For these are love poems, not in the man-woman sense (though you’ll find some of those as well), but in that these poems make a place (a star-filled night, a green field, a known house) where what is loved is brought to be saved, even if (perhaps especially if) it cannot find any other way to survive in this world.And this is how it closes:
How It Seems To Me is not your typical “nice words, but so what?” book. Life matters here. Every transcendent, mud-caked moment of it. And the stakes are very high: all we are or have a chance to become before we leave this world, and what, if anything, we leave behind.You can read the complete review here. You can order your copy for $12.50 plus $2 s&h from Tom Montag, PO Box 8, Fairwater, WI. Make checks payable to me. You'll be glad you did.
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