SEASONS OF CHANGE by Ed Block

$14.99

 

The plainspoken and yet elegant poems in Ed Block‘s latest collection travel from Wisconsin to Malawi to Florida.  Like Elizabeth Bishop, Block sees with a painter’s sense of color and proportion. His images are precise and luminous, as when a man, rising early to feed the birds, “scatters corn like gold, then rubs his palms with light.” Seasons of Change offers its readers a heightened sense of the world’s difficult beauty.  

–Angela Sorby, author of Bird Skin Coat and The Sleeve Waves and is recipient of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and theLorine Niedecker Award

 

In Ed Block‘s Seasons of Change, the reader smiles at what she reads.  Like a “month’s old homesick cry,” these poems are a layering of sunshine, shadow, and dust.  Block travels to Africa, Florida, and back home with a contemplation of seasons interwoven with cycles of leaving and returning.  “Your ghosts of yesteryear, adieu.  Return, remain.”  Have a drink of tea or vermouth and enjoy the subtle rhythms and glinting sparkle of these poems that revel in memory and change.

–Sylvia Cavanaugh, author of Staring Through My Eyes

 

The poems of Seasons of Change take a wide sweep, both in season and geography, from his home in Wisconsin to Africa and back again and then Florida. A variety of beauties here.

–Greg Delanty, author, most recently, of Collected Poems: 1986-2006 and The Ship of Birth, is also recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award.

 

 

 

 

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SEASONS OF CHANGE

by Ed Block

$14.99, paper

Author of the acclaimed collection, Anno Domini, Ed Block now returns with Seasons of Change, a collection of “nature and neighborhood” poems that will take the reader from the Midwest to Africa and the Florida Keys and back again, with unique perspectives on a variety of places, and everyday experiences along the way.

Following the seasons from spring through the end of the year, Seasons of Change includes unusual takes on things like ladders, flowers, streets, and neighborhoods, as well as places like the a native African bar and the Florida Keys, all of which it looks at with insight, humor, and not a little pathos.  With tributes to Ted Kooser, Charles Simic, Elizabeth Bishop, and Federico Garcia Lorca, and titles like “Rummage Sale,” “October Farewell, “In the Keys with Maggie,” and “Hotel Malawi,” this small collection will reward reading and rereading, as well as recommending to friends.

Ed Block has published dozens of poems in a variety of journals, received commendations for his poems, and been interviewed on both “Lake Effect,” a regional public radio station show, and “The Lydia Lococo Show,” which airs on a local Catholic station.  He writes from Greendale, Wisconsin, where he gardens, does water colors, and contributes reviews and occasional essays to various publications.

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