Afloat: Poems 2014-2017 - Softcover

Greene, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 1937968413 ISBN 13: 9781937968410

Publisher: Broadstone Books, 2018

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Poetry. "[N]o one questions / how a ladder can / rest against a cloud." There are moments when the poetry of Jonathan Greene can seem as airy and insubstantial as the cover of his latest collection. Though each exquisitely well-chosen word bears the full weight of human experience, his touch is so light and sure that his poems float on the page, and in our minds upon reading them. This seeming simplicity betrays a mastery of poetic craft by an author who has been at this for six decades now. And if his verses more often touch on mortality and loss, his humor is intact, as in this characteristically short scene "In the Pumpkin Patch": "The toddler used to / getting his way, picks out / a pumpkin he can't lift." Fortunately Greene is back to lend a hand, with poetry to make life no less serious, but a bit easier to bear.

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About the Author

Jonathan Greene, born in New York City in 1943, graduated from Bard College in 1965. Twice he spent time living in San Francisco before moving to Kentucky in 1966 to work for the university press where he became book designer and production manager. His Gnomon Press, founded in 1965, has published many literary and photographic works. He lives on a Kentucky River farm north of Frankfort with his wife, fiber artist and photographer Dobree Adams, and continues to work as a freelance book designer. He has been awarded fellowships for his writing from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council.

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