TIME BOMB Poems

Fox, Richard H. , Inscribed

ISBN 10: 0989312704 / ISBN 13: 9780989312707

Published by Kittacuck Press, 2013

About this Item

Near Fine first edition inscribed by Fox on the title page dated: 08/30/2013. The previous owner has stapled a corner of envelope with the author's address onto the front fly. 92 pages, unmarked; OOCB U6U; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 92 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 48703

Bibliographic Details

• Title: TIME BOMB Poems
• Publisher: Kittacuck Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0989312704
• ISBN 13: 9780989312707
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

TIME BOMB is a collection of reflective poems divided into four
Rue - contemporary visions
Better living through cancer - the patient's point of view
Clan Webster - college daze in the 1970s shape who we are today
Keeping time for my history - life in the old mill town of Worcester MA

The cancer poems chronicle experience from diagnosis to recovery drawing on hope, humor, and unforeseen gifts. This book is recommended for cancer patients and their families.

The author is a Jewish poet who seeks spirituality and ethics in his roots. - smallpoetatlarge.com

Cover photo by Mark William Rabiner

Review

"Richard Fox honors the phrase 'provoked to poetry.' His poems are provoking and provocative and the very best of them deal with suffering and illness, with wildness and a new kind of Jewish identity. Time Bomb is not cancer free. It is vital and essential reading." - Liz Rosenberg, author of The Laws of Gravity and Home Repair

"Rich Fox calls himself a small poet at large, but there is nothing small about the poems in Time Bomb. They are large-themed and large-hearted, framed by a world at war with itself and a world all the more lovely when it is almost taken from us, when we see how filled to overflowing it is with light and joy and longing and loss.  - continued below

continued from above - These are well crafted, poignant, clever and ultimately wise poems which leave the reader wanting to believe one can throw one's arms around this hard won world, and, better yet, that the world will hold us in its arms as well." - John Hodgen, AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, author of Heaven & Earth Holding Company and Grace

"Time Bomb is a testament to maturity and hard-won wisdom. These finely crafted poems radiate intelligence, black humor and vivid imagination, and are filled with imagery that startles repeatedly but always feels exactly right. Richard Fox is a poet whose raw materials are illness, loss, and disappointment and like the alchemists of old, he changes lead to gold." - Charles Coe, author of Picnic on the Moon and All Sins Forgiven: Poems for My Parents

"I found myself reading Time Bomb the way I read Shakespeare ... slow, savoring each line individually before considering its contribution to the poem. With descriptive precision and loving humor Richard Fox brought me deeper into his world than I would have previously believed possible. This was the most satisfying read I have had in years." - Don White, author, singer songwriter, comedian