Out of Lethe by Dan Cullimore

Out of Lethe

by Dan Cullimore

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-145-3

2020

This chapbook was made possible in part by donations to the ONE LAST WORD Program. ONE LAST WORD helps to bring the last works of gifted poets to the world.

“A poet wants words,” Dan Cullimore writes in the first poem of this collection . . . “to carry home…useful as nuts.” A life-long resident of Central Missouri, Dan was a well-known advocate for neighbors and neighborhoods, for things that grow, for things that have been lovingly crafted, and for things that have stood the test of time.  Less widely-known, except among a small circle of friends, is his skill as poet, shown here for the first time.  Each poem is reflectively crafted from the materials at hand—clay, mud, rain, reflections, flowers, people.  They carry his voice and his eye and ear for the unique, the long-lived, and the hand made.