The Old Man who Swam Away and Left Only His Wet Feet: PoemsThis book brings together thirty years of writing: two previously released chapbooksA Lover's Quarrel with AmericaandDostoevsky & Other Nature Poemsalong with new work from the last decade. All of it bears Frumkin's signature stoic humor. These poems have emanated from nature are meant to be a tribute to nature: the nature of the four elements human nature, art and artists as facts of nature, and the nature of language itself. Described as an "unlineal descendant of Doestoevsky," Frumkin uses philosophical equations and remarkable language to describe hopeful endurance within the modern condition, life strategies "where green disengages/from truth/and emerges armed with wily music." |
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abstract AGE NOW ENDING Albuquerque aleph allergy ANDROGYNE angels arms arrive bar mitzvah beauty believe blood blue body bones breath Bronx caterpillar circle collage COLOPHON curve death DOSTOEVSKY dream drifts earth elms embrace emerges eyes face father feminism fishes for stars forget Gene Frumkin glass grass green grow hair hand heart heaven horse human Indian leaves lectern legs light lives lover LOVER'S QUARREL marathon Marne Mexico mind morning moth mother mouth move never Nude numbers obsessive orange Ozarks perfect poems poetry QUARREL WITH AMERICA rain razor remind RENATURING CYCLE rider Rilke river sand Scorpius semen shadows shape silence sleep smoke of trees snow someone soprano stares story Surrealist Swam thighs thought tomorrow tongue UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN voice wait warm nights wearing Wet Feet whispering wife wind words worm