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Reviews for Never say Never
by Jennifer Matthews / Ibbetson Update
"Never Say Never" is an achievement that carries the reader through a window-eye into roomfuls of lilacs, mud and onyx...then to portraits of moments freeze-framed by the art of lyrical perception. In her poem titled: "Letter Perfect," Alice Persons delivers a perfect litany to the world of "O." Very clever.
Ms. Persons is an enjoyable poet to read. She writes owl sharp cantatas of life's snapshots captured in beautiful well-crafted collages of words.
Not pretentious, but real...something to soak your feet into while gazing inward...her chapbook displays moments of contemplation that lingers in your thoughts, well after you have read her and digested.
Jennifer Matthews / Ibbetson Update / http://www.jennifermatthews.com Jennifer Matthews is a vocalist and poet and the author of the poetry collection "Fairytales and Misdemeanors." (Ibbetson 2003)
by Baron Wormser, Poet Laureate of Maine
The poetry of Alice Persons is deeply alert to the mundane moments of living on earth, moments that in the hands of a poet aren't mundane at all. Alice Persons is very much such a poet as she deftly fashions scenes and perceptions that register genuine intensities and then lets go. Her sense of how a poem can do its work quietly yet passionately is a delight.
Sample from Never say Never
To My Cat With An Eating Disorder
You were thrown out of a moving vehicle
on a dirt road
in chilly winter downeast Maine,
little fur scrap, and I hope you don't
carry that memory with you,
but the hunger, the deep fear
that you'll never see food again
is still there five years later
when you are huge and sleek,
a sumo Buddha of a cat.
I've seen you, after a big meal,
heave yourself from a sound sleep,
pad into the kitchen, launch your bulk
onto the counter, and check the food supply,
then crouch there chewing and chewing,
green eyes empty, concentrating
on your burden, your compulsion,
doggedly eating, whether you want to or not.
There are stories about Holocaust or
Depression survivors whose refrigerators
and pantries are always full, just in case,
how some of them still wake in the night
and check their abundant supplies,
run their hands over the packages,
or eat without hunger, just because they can.
Cat, I stand in the dark kitchen
stroking your broad back,
wishing I could banish the fears
of one small, common creature,
those bad dreams that awaken you,
that hollow place in your memory
which can never be filled.
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