For Love of Common Words
Subtitle: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: April 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780807131374
Subjects: American - General; Poetry
Description: "The scariest sentence in the English language is brief, threatening, and hopeful. It is deceptive, simple, and as common as water: anything is possible. This second collection by Steve Scafidi is haunted by the possible and "the bells of the verb to be" that "ring-a-ding-ding calling us / to the holy dark of this first / warm night of Spring." When anything is possible, Scafidi finds, horror is as likely as delight. In poems both meditative and defiant he mourns the eventual loss of all that we love and finds consolation, wherever possible, in the rhythm of common words and "the sacred guesswork" of the imagination. Here is the dangerous world we all have in common. Here is a brief and hopeful book."--Publisher's website.