Out of This World: Poems - Softcover

Somoza, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0938317113 ISBN 13: 9780938317111

Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press, 1996

Synopsis

Out of This World is an homage, a memoir, of the Spain Joe Somoza left behind as a child. It's a celebration of his new life in this country with his wife Jill and their three children. The book opens with some lines from an Asturian folk song, "the loves that you had / at the seashore, / the loves that you had / you can never forget," forming a motif for the deceptively simple poems about a man’s life time of loves. It’s his world we enter, seeing, hearing as if through an open window, carried away from our own world by his ironic, humorous voice.

 

"The poems here ring, they are full of guileless humor and honest wisdom, and they remind you that even the most mundane parts of our lives can be poetry. “In the simple things, he manages to challenge the complexities of life, calling upon his control of words to cull forth a moment of intense beauty." —Luis J. Rodriguez

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Review:

Apples
Asbury Park Boardwalk, February
Ashcan School
Au Lait
Away
Ball Game
Ballad
Baroque Diddles From The Other Room
Beach
Behind Aguirre Springs
Behind Me
Beside Myself
Blowing
Bower
Brain Food
Chanson
China
The Chinese Print
Chopin Etude
Christmas Poem
City Beach
Cloudcroft
Dream Ride
Englishwomen Are Nervous
Eugene In Castilla
F. Lee Bailey Come Home
Flow
The Frank O'hara's Lunch Poems
Fugue
Gleam
Gonzalo De Berceo
Greed
Guide To New York
Heaven
Imagine! Someone From Latvia!
Imperfections
In The Early Mornings
Inland
Just Words
Kiss-off
Last Poem By The Beach
Like That
Love
Love Poem
New Year
Nostalgia
November Song
Objects
October
Office Hour
Our Town
Play It Again
Poem Before My Birthday
Puerto Rican Country Girl
Rainy
Ravenous Friendships
Red Ristras
Restoration
Ride
Ritual
A River
Salt Sea
Santa Claus
Saturday
Sea Land: 1.
Sea Land: 2.
Sea Land: 3.
Sea Land: 4.
Seaside
Skip It. When I'm Tired
Snakes
So Brilliant And All
Somewhere Outside
Spring For You
Sra. Suarez
Such Light
Sweet Women
To Utah
Up With The Children
Viejo
Visit Home
Winter Games, Sels.
Winter Muse
Year's End
Zoo
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0938317113
• ISBN 13: 9780938317111
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96