Telling Signs - Marvin J. Lurie

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Résumé :
The poems in Telling Signs tell compelling stories with 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. Intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging poems are written in plain, even austere language

Biographie:
Marvin J. Lurie is a retired trade association executive who lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Sylvia and their dog Tasha, a Terrier mix. He is an active member of the Portland poetry community, including two terms on the Oregon Poetry Association Board of Directors (OPA) and as a participant in several critique groups. He is an almost perpetual poetry student at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland as a multi-year member of its Poets Studio and a 2016-17 Fellow of its Atheneum. He is also an active member of his local Mensa chapter. His poetry has been published in three anthologies, Port Chicago Poets, Terra Incognita, and Matter II, Volume I and two on line journals, Brick and Mortar Review and Writersresist.com. Three prize winning poems appeared in annual issues of the Oregon Poetry Association Verseweavers Anthology of Winning Poems. He won the 2001 Rosemary Sazonoff Creative Writing Contest and his poem appeared in its Spring into Poetry Journal. His political poetry appeared in the chapbook, The Covfefe Resistance.