Hats Are The Enemy of Poetry

Rector, Bill

ISBN 10: 1646623908 / ISBN 13: 9781646623907

Published by Finishing Line Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hats Are The Enemy of Poetry
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1646623908
• ISBN 13: 9781646623907
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

What could "Hats are the Enemy of Poetry" possibly mean? Absurdly, it invites the reader to put on her thinking cap. Or better, to go bareheaded into the book, the first poem of which is entitled: Emily Dickinson is not in. Please leave a message. What message? The reader will decide, as always. But at the least, she will be exposed to the elements. "Before hummingbirds, Sweetheart, /there was plutonium," as the final poem in the collection begins, ending "in the garden of a God/ we do not, cannot, comprehend, / for what seems more than/ an instant, but less than eternity."

About the Author

Bill Rector is a retired physician who currently lives with his wife in rural South Carolina. He is former editor of the Yale Journal of Humanities and Medicine. He has published a full-length volume of poetry, bill (Proem Press), as well as four chapbooks: Biography of a Name (Unsolicited Press), Brief Candles (Prolix Press), Lost Moth (Epiphany prize-winner), and Two Worlds (White Knuckle Press).