Fatherless Children (Paperback)

Michael D. Grover

ISBN 13: 9798999625601

Published by Roadside Press, 2025

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Paperback. Fatherless Children by Michael D. Grover is a raw and expansive collection of poetry that delves into themes of familial trauma, societal disillusionment, and the struggle for personal authenticity and spiritual awakening in a world perceived as corrupt and controlled. The author uses his personal narrative, particularly his complex relationship with his deceased father, as a lens to explore broader critiques of American society, consumerism, political systems, and the inherent suffering of human existence. Over the years Michael D. Grover has become a legendary underground Poet. Back in the early 2000s he ran Covert Press and worked with many of the giants of underground Poetry. Over the years Michael has been published in countless publications all over the World, and published over fifteen books of Poetry. Michael spent over ten years as head Poetry editor of the literary zine Red Fez. Michael has published two novels. Michael currently lives in Florida, dealing with cancer, with his dog where he meditates every day. a book of poetry by Michael D. Grover This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fatherless Children (Paperback)
• Publisher: Roadside Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798999625601
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Fatherless Children by Michael D. Grover is a raw and expansive collection of poetry that delves into themes of familial trauma, societal disillusionment, and the struggle for personal authenticity and spiritual awakening in a world perceived as corrupt and controlled. The author uses his personal narrative, particularly his complex relationship with his deceased father, as a lens to explore broader critiques of American society, consumerism, political systems, and the inherent suffering of human existence.

“Michael Grover’s Fatherless Children is a long, winding, 200 part elegy for his father and “…the world as it used to be.” It’s a book of healing and spiritual awakening. Of learning to love and learning to forgive. There’s still heavy doses of Grover’s legendary punk antics aimed at the bullshit in our country, and there’s still his bits of poetic wisdom that he’s found over the decades of living on the fringe, forever an outlaw, but there’s a growing openness dotted with glimmers of hope in this new work. Or, as he says, “Maybe that’s what I’m doing here/Trying to fix what’s broken,” and indeed, you can see the mending begin, continue and end, all in Grover’s trademark fashion of punchy poems that sit in your lap a while. This is a book that would go well with both morning coffee and meditation, or with midnight nightcaps and prayers for sleep.”—Dan Denton, author of The Dead and the Desperate and others

“Michael D. Grover’s Fatherless Children is an outcast’s plaintive wail to a lost father and a generation of lost kids. This long elegy comprised of bite-sized diary-like entries is an impassioned plea for love and understanding in a fatherless american hellscape where even Poets claw up each-other’s spines to be seen & lionized, to bask in the attention of their fathers. Though the world is steadily burning, the Poet finds a way to do his work of making words. Despite cancer, paranoia, capitalism, society’s crash & burn, and an unfixable broken relationship with his father, the Poet urges us onward: Be the light, be creation in the face of decline / Be the light, as dark as it may seem.”—A.S. Coomer, author of Songs for Leaving and others