David E Poston: Letting Go, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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In Letting Go, David Poston marries poetic skill and spiritual awareness, weaving religion, faith, relationships, doctrines, and values into a tapestry of compelling poetry. The text shifts from easy-going to uncomfortable to downright defiant, even as Poston's polite, intellectually stimulating approach declines to hide the dissonance he deftly commands.

These poems call for an immersion in the text on the page and the allusions that expand to what is said between the lines. In "Chuck Norris and Jesus," knowing Borges's story transmutes us from recognition to enlightenment.

In contrast, the poem "Insomnia" distills our needs into one most pivotal:

... In this broken world

(Do you understand I want to scream this?)

it does not matter. You must turn, you must

embrace, you must hold on to each other.

There is no tomorrow, just this one long night...

Thus does Poston deliver the context and importance of letting go, for by doing so, you open the door to your better self and to others.

Anne M. Kaylor is the executive editor and publisher of Kakalak Anthology of Poets & Artists and the author of Floating a Full Boat and Unwilling to Laugh Alone.