Telling Signs by Marvin J. Lurie

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Telling Signs

by Marvin J. Lurie

$19.99, FUll-length, paper

979-8-88838-072-7

2023

The poems in Telling Signs have a long perspective: historical, Biblical, archaeological even to an “unimaginable future when time has swallowed us too.” Evoked voices enact the randomness and unfairness of war in stories told by soldiers of the Hebrew Bible and those of both Union and Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. The poet’s intense personal engagement with the natural world begin as a child lulled to sleep by roaring waves and extends to adventures in woods and fields as an adult with a dog companion. Personal histories explore the youthful discovery of what work is, and mature, rueful awareness of how the past eludes closure. Compelling stories are written in plain, even austere, language in poems that are intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging.

Marvin Lurie is retired from a career as a trade press editor, president of an association management and consulting firm, and senior executive in an international trade association.  He and his wife, Sylvia,  moved from the Chicago area to Portland, Oregon in 2003 where he has been an active member of the local poetry community including service on the board of directors of the Oregon Poetry Association for two terms, as an almost perpetual poetry student at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland and as a participant in several critique groups.