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126 pages, Paperback
Published May 18, 2006
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November 29, 2007
I discovered this book through a false assumption by myself, and Amazon. I have been a fan of the author Ben Logan for years who wrote "The Land Remembers" and other delightful warm books about country life in Wisconsin.
But this book is by a quite different Ben Logan. He is a poet who writes poems of amazing power and emotion that took my breath away. This book gives to the reader gifts of poems about love gained or lost. There are poems about life with and the death of his dearly loved wife. And there are poems about those left behind in black neighborhoods today where the community has shattered, the families have disintegrated, and those who have succeeded have forgotten to look back.
This poet spares no words, no emotions. The back cover describes the book as "enjoyable". I wouldn't use that word. These poems reach deeper than that. They speak to your soul.
The morning I finished this book, I watched Bill Moyers interview James Cone, an African-American Christian theologion. This interview also kept me on the edge of my chair and flowed with the connections I had established by accident with Ben Logan's poetry.
But this book is by a quite different Ben Logan. He is a poet who writes poems of amazing power and emotion that took my breath away. This book gives to the reader gifts of poems about love gained or lost. There are poems about life with and the death of his dearly loved wife. And there are poems about those left behind in black neighborhoods today where the community has shattered, the families have disintegrated, and those who have succeeded have forgotten to look back.
This poet spares no words, no emotions. The back cover describes the book as "enjoyable". I wouldn't use that word. These poems reach deeper than that. They speak to your soul.
The morning I finished this book, I watched Bill Moyers interview James Cone, an African-American Christian theologion. This interview also kept me on the edge of my chair and flowed with the connections I had established by accident with Ben Logan's poetry.
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