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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.
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th
