A Jigsaw Puzzle - Kennedy, Neil

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Résumé :
Neil Kennedy's new book, A Jigsaw Puzzle is like no other book of poetry I have ever read. From the very beginning-Flower on the floor./Somebody has lost their bloom./I am very careful.-Kennedy pulls you in, though really, as with any jigsaw puzzle, you can enter anywhere and find yourself unable to stop being enchanted by this world that gets put together one tercet at a time. Birds of all species, one chickadee setting up its home into two birdhouses, music from next door, problematic snow, little Jesus at the gas station, hourglasses, cats and dogs, timepieces and shoelaces, software malfunctions in the forgiveness machine, hammer and teacup going home together, hesitating clouds deciding whether to cast shadows or not, daffodils breaching their contract, card catalogue in the junkyard with one drawer open-this poignantly quiet rhythm and boldly observant eye unfold a landscape that is defined often by the spaces between places and moments in time. In one of the occasional breaks of the tercet form the poet writes Behind one man's voice and then then there's space and then Another man's voice. In the poems to which we turn for insight and illumination we often sense poet and shadow self, the two voices talking to each other and including us in the conversation. Kennedy's A Jigsaw Puzzle, offers you a conversation to which you will want to return again and again. -Christopher Bursk, author of The Improbable Swervings of Atoms

Biographie:
Neil Craig Kennedy is a poet and librarian. He holds an AA in Liberal Arts, a BA in English Literature, an MFA in Creative Writing, and an MS in Library Science. He lives outside Philadelphia.

Sommaire:
Neil Kennedy has authored 15 books and hundreds of syndicated articles with a global reach. As founder of FivestarMan, his daily devotional, TheDailyChampion.com, is read by thousands of men each day. Neil speaks to men in churches, conferences, and hosts a weekly FivestarMan Champions livestream. He and his wife, Kay, have been married for 40 years. They have three children and eight grandchildren and reside in Tulsa, Oklahoma....