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In these Green River Road poems, mind is taken on paths of wonderfully swift, and modulated, changes in thought and thing. Many unexpected ports of vision appear, and morph, and the poems grow and branch this way. To see the swiftness and substance, they need to be read closely. They discover a bright knowledge as they go. The stakes?: “The world will end like a poem/ that could have been our own.”
–Reed Bye
Green River Road
by Michael Levell
$13.99
978-1-63534-782-1
2018
Michael Levell was born and raised in Southern Indiana. He presently lives in Denver, Colorado and teaches writing and literature in Aurora, Colorado. This is his first chapbook.
Scott –
This man’s writings remind me I am dehydrated of what my mind needs.
Troy Suben –
In this work a reader can expect to discover sculptures of twisted-perspective like a testimony given before the eyes of a hypothetical witness-instead-of-judge, some potential uncreated-objective-other: reader-be-like-god, having been provided unbiased portraits of consciousness – substance for the metabolization of understanding the implications of human disconnectedness from what it is to be alive – the perspective in the mirror, if it could ever hear its own shadow-of-a-voice with its own scrambled-audio-eye sight perhaps would find reason to either 1) break down and admit regret or 2) clench harder towards destructive ends. After-all, if there is anyway justice can be accounted for in consciousness it is through poetry, a justice that is, but has no place in our current, defined, standing of society.
Troy Suben –
In this work a reader can expect to discover sculptures of twisted-perspective like a testimony given before the eyes of a hypothetical witness-instead-of-judge, some potential uncreated-objective-other: reader-be-like-god, having been provided unbiased portraits of consciousness – substance for the metabolization of understanding the implications of human disconnectedness, from what it is to be alive.
Samuel Wells –
Micheal has been one of my favorite poet for years and I’m thrilled to see another collection of his work being published. Levell’s work makes the world a lovelier, more mysterious place. You should read it.
Sandy Smith (verified owner) –
To me, poetry is the rendering of expansive ideas into a compact form. The poems in GREEN RIVER ROAD tumble like Autumn leaves over the fertile planes of imagination. Small seedlings of thought are planted that later burst into blooming cognition. “Perchance” is just such a poem, its cadence gently floating over you and then at its end suddenly that intriguing complexity of thought bursting into the consciousness.
“William Thomas” is a poem born up like Tintern Abbey. A journey is contained in the verse. In this narrative poem, you are given a glimpse of human commonalities. A homeless man entrenched in his world and an attuned wanderer meet. Their meeting is brief but they manage to touch one another. They part and later meet again. At each meeting they meld together forgotten aspects of themselves. You can feel both their separateness and their union. It is like the overlap of a circle and an ellipse.
This book of poems is evocative, sincere, sweet and sad, truthful and wistful. It is an offering.
John Patsynski –
Michael Levell is a marvelous poet. Green River Road is full of his history, insight, wit, & heart. Call your own bluff; go all in, & read it.
John Patsynski –
Michael Level is a marvelous poet. Green River Road is full of his history, insight, wit, & heart. Call your own bluff; go all in on this book.