Maxims From My Mother's Milk/Hymns to Him: A Dialogue - Softcover

With reckless wordplay, Messerli rummages around in the preconscious realm where ideas are hatched: "Out of words / come the mouths of babes / bursting into longabort of it." These poems happen, unpredictably, like a short story that writes itself. In exploring how language acts as a perceptual filter, Messerli, author of River to Rivet: A Poetic Trilogy , strives to capture the mind's irregular rhythms and ever-shifting focus. Yet his verses are more than delicate, sometimes wickedly clever word-experiments. In the act of purifying language, the poet aims to restore the yin-yang balance of male and female energies within his psyche and to reconcile the polarities of a treacherous world. Images of growth and natural potential naturally abound: wet birch branches, "valleys . . . always hungry for mountains," "one sapling which who knows / could become the sun!" A life-affirming, lyrical sampler.
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Again
Aller Et Retour
The Annunciation
The Bite
Breathless
By Any Other
Calls Of Nature: A Square Dance
Coronach For Everyone
Dancing In The Dark
Decline And Fall
Ear Endow
Easter, 1986
En Route (narcissus)
The Frantic Look
From Hear To Air
Getting Started
Golden Fedoras
In Memory
Inheritance
Lathe
Lazarus: A Parable
Letter To Post
Lullaby
Making A Mercury Out Of Every Log
A Moral Story
The Next Things That Wants
Night Train
On Edge
On The Face Of It
On The Line
Pandora's Box
Pine Must Into Graftings Cut
The River Bed
Scared Cows
Settlement
Sing Along With Kate
A Slant On Which Was Never
The Sticks He Saw Halved
Swan Dive
Sweden
Trousseau
A Vector Of The Straddle
Waiting For The Ballad To Begin
Watch
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ