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Lips Don't Lie - newspaper review of my book. by Jon P Petruschke
Rated "G" by the Author.
A review of my book Dream Haiku: Poems from Nights and Naps in The Portland Phoenix newspaper.
Love poetry but lack the hours the digest it? Jon Petruschke’s new self-published collection Dream Haiku has plenty of bite-sized nuggets of wit and wisdom to hold you over. The Munjoy Hill writer offers 200 insights on the universal subjects of unity (“She’s convinced / my two-word haiku is / a rant about her.”), alienness (“The most boring guy / offers to lend me / his bathing suit.”), self-reflection (“Mom frowns reading my / diary, but most of it’s / what I’d wished I’d done.”), politics (“Military’s / new policy - / Do tell, do tell.”), and irreverence (“Try getting out of / boxing match, by refusing / to put down juice glass.”) As you can tell, Petruschke wisely strays from the 5-7-5 form in deference to the poem; while this may be more a collection of aphorisms, purists step down: there are more than enough passages here to satisfy the broadside of a fridge.
A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).
David Hightower’s lyrically expansive meditation on the whims of fate and the unpredictability of the human condition fill the pages of THE HANGING MAN DREAMS with thrilling music and mesmerizing imagery. Hightower’s richly infused voice echoes the e
