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Now We're Getting Somewhere by David Clewell (Volume 1994) (Wisconsin Poetry Series)Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994
ISBN is 9780299144142 / 0299144143
Paperback
6 x 8 inches, 85 pages
David Clewell's graceful, honest lines accumulate and remind us that poems can be as tangible, as substantial, as redemptive as those things the poet will not let go unspoken in the world. His compassionate witness is born out of immersion in doggedly bittersweet particulars: the cockeyed wisdom of 1950s science fiction movies; Do Not Disturb signs; vegetarian physics; the perils of bed-and-breakfast lodging; flying saucer disciples; what to do in case of Rapture; Debbie Fuller, reluctant childhood angel; the theory and practice of Spontaneous Human Combustion. His passionate transformation of that raw data into song no matter how fragile or raucous provides irrefutable testimony about the consequences of being nothing less than human, where every day someone crawls out of his ocean of sleep / and takes… Read More