Category:
Poetry
Publisher: March Street Press
Gene McCormick’s latest collection of narrative poetry (poems as stories, stories as poems), An Ice Axe At Dusk, was published by March Street Press. The 81+ page collection consists of 57 new, or previously uncollected, vignettes of recognizable people—and sometimes objects—working through their daily lives.
Early reviews have been favorable. Says Alan Catlin, author of Near Death in the Afternoon on Becker Street: “Reading Gene McCormick's An Ice Ax at Dusk is like looking at paintings by Edward Hopper; the ones featuring shadows and light, empty rooms at different hours of the day, a sunset viewed over railway tracks and telephone wires, a well-lighted boardinghouse as seen from outside. Waiting, inside, are ordinary people, not necessarily living lives of quiet desperation, as just getting by. This is what good narrative poetry is all about and Gene McCormick is a modern master of the form.”
The book’s title was inspired by Franz Kafka’s quote: “A book must be an ice ax, to break the sea within us.”
Signed copies can be ordered direct from the author:
Genebiz.earthlink.net
($9 + $2 s/h)
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