Showboat

by Grace Cavalieri, Cynthia Cavalieri (Illustrator), April Grant (Editor)

Maryland’s tenth Poet Laureate, Grace Cavalieri was married to Kenneth Flynn, for 60 years, until his death in 2013. He was a Naval Aviator serving on nine carriers until his retirement in 1975. Beginning with shore duty in 1964, Kenneth Flynn became a renowned metal sculptor, inventing the lost wood process with bronze and steel. Showboat charts Grace’s journey as a Navy wife, and mentions the art world she moved theater, poetry, and radio.

36 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 11, 2019

Reviews

[Grady · Rating 5 out of 5]

‘Confronting life’s translations’

Maryland poet Grace Cavalieri has been honored by her home state of Maryland as the Poet Laureate – an honor well deserved. Graces poetry is admired and respected by a large audience, especially by other poets for whom she is a role model in style and wisdom and execution of her art.
In this brief but pungent collection of poems Grace responds to the multifaceted life as the widow of Naval Aviator/ sculptor Kenneth Flynn – her responses to life both as a military wife as well as her exposure to the worlds of art, poetry and radio.

Linger with Grace as she creates memoires and ideas that draw the reader into her rara avis realm. The long and connected poem closes with the following:

New Hampshire

This story I’m telling
It’s cracked from the course of time
It’s just the brink of the abyss
follies of stained glass
A wonderful pleasure
Crimson ribbons a minute’s silence

But to truly fly with her, read and reread the poem in its entirety. Grace Cavalieri is one of our most important poets. Highly recommended.

[Karren · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wrote a review at https://alenieratscene4.blogspot.com/...

This is a masterful long poem that is —without fanfare—based on The Odyssey.