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The Widow From Lake Bled
by Kirby Wright – copyright 2013
ISBN 978-1-4675-7261-3
$17 including postage and handling
Reviews for The Widow From Lake Bled
by Tristan Beach, Associate Editor,The Conium Review
Whether it be a Hawaiian beach or an attic in eastern Europe, each locale is rendered in precise and empathic verse. Wright's poems are wrought with such care and intelligence--testaments to his mastery of craft.
by Kristof Thibaud, Publisher, Lemon Shark Press
Each book in this collection contains its own story, thanks to lyric narrative, a sharp ear for dialogue, and a keen eye for gesture. Wright is like a sgraffito artist--he scratches at surfaces to reveal both the beauty and the agony of life.
Sample from The Widow From Lake Bled
At the Memorial Park
I bring yellow heliconia and red torch ginger.
You’re planted on a rise beside the shower tree.
Diamond Head looms in the background.
You’re too low to see the ocean.
You’re planted on a rise beside the shower tree.
Show people you love ‘em when they’re alive, you said.
You’re too low to see the ocean.
I was your nightmare: a law school flunk out.
Show people you love ‘em when they’re alive, you said.
You haunt me more than mother.
You’re too low to see the ocean.
Chan Yang and Fu Chuan Lee flank you.
I fill your vase to the brim.
Diamond Head looms in the background.
A plover lands on your marker.
I bring yellow heliconia and red torch ginger.
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