This poetry collection, published by University of Salzburg Press, is mainly an evocation of various European cities, particularly Zurich, and artisitc events and personalities associated with them. A great read for those who enjoy European travel and culture, from a prize-winning poet.
VISITING THE CATHEDRAL
We are visiting the cathedral
of Limburg, newly repainted
the color of flesh, a dark,
sun-burned flesh that contrasts
starkly with the skeleton inside.
Here is its authentic age:
along the quiet nave footfall
and voice are long hushed,
the bare bones are blanched,
the texture is of sudden dust.
In this colonnade of limbs,
femurs and the girded thighs
stride the huge ribbed edifice
aloft amid this world of wars
and through the bloodshot sky.
BEFORE DARKNESS FALLS Retails for 14.95 / but you can have it now for only 11.95 This is a book of poetry and prose that deals with real life issues that all of mankind comes to face. Some of the poems deal with the tenderness of love, while others s
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