Whirling Backward Into the World: Poems

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Sunstone Press, 2006 - Poetry - 108 pages
"These fifty-two poems," Michael Scofield says, "are fictionalized attempts to accept my existence in the world. They range from dealing with outrage over our lust to make war through regret at botched relationships, to love for Noreen, my wife of eighteen years, to the renewal of energy that comes from listening to the music of J.S. Bach, to the underlying belief that a higher power loves me. Nonsense poems appear throughout the book because nonsense is often all I can make of what seems reality." A graduate of Yale University, Michael Scofield received his M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College in 2002. Afternoons, he teaches creative-writing skills individually to half a dozen students. The author of two chapbooks and an earlier book of poems, "Silicon Valley Escapee," he also has published books on topics as diverse as bird-watching and furniture upholstering. Before moving to Santa Fe in 1995, his wife and he ran a high-tech marketing-communications business from their home in Palo Alto, California.
 

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Contents

PREFACE
13
BEGGING HIS DOPPELGANGER
19
Report from the Interior
25
Soaring
32
Tonight Nothing Works
38
Overpopulation
47
Why the Army Assigned Me a Psychiatrist
54
Seeing My Father
60
Last Gasp
66
Life Force
72
Emergency Plumbing Illustrated
79
Okay Cry But Dont Forget Your Fiber
86
Whirling has Worked for the Sufis Since 1273
92
Draftees
98
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A graduate of Yale University, Michael Scofield received his M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College in 2002. Afternoons, he teaches creative-writing skills individually to half a dozen students. The author of two chapbooks and an earlier book of poems, "Silicon Valley Escapee," he also has published books on topics as diverse as bird-watching and furniture upholstering. Before moving to Santa Fe in 1995, his wife and he ran a high-tech marketing-communications business from their home in Palo Alto, California.

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