Low GrowthAuthor: Christian ThompsonGenre: Poetry/Music Date Published: 00 , 0000 ISBN-10: ISBN-13: 9781625490506 |
Christian Thompson's book of poems covers a very wide spectrum of subject matter--love, loss, humanity, etc. When reading his poems you will feel, ponder, comtemplate and marvel. The insight at times feels bright and liberating-Thompson puts words to feelings, moods and attitudes. Thompson is insightful of life and living and what it really means. After reading his works you are enlightened to feelings you have--Thompson's poems puts into words your inner self.
Man On a Bench
He pretended to be homeless
sitting in a train station
below the street on a bench
pausing now & then to enter
brief nap-like meditations
coming out each time
more forgetful than before
of who he was,
where he was from,
if he were married,
had kids--
the people in the station
all walked toward somewhere
while the man on the bench
had no place to go--
his forgetfulness prevented him
from feeling lonely
yet his sense of having been
someone else remained
enough to set him free.
When you read it, you will get it. A book you will keep and read time and time again
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Christian Thompson's poems, essays, and short fiction have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review Online, The Amherst Review, Appalachia, Caveat Lector, The Aurorean, and other journals. His essay, "A Science of Subjectivity," which first appeared in the 2009 Nov./Dec. issue of The American Poetry Review was selected for inclusion in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 272, 2013. He was a finalist in the 2002 Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Competition and an earlier version of his book of poems, "Low Growth," published by WordTech Communications, LLC through its imprint Word Poetry Press in Nov. 2013, was awarded the distinction of "Other Remarkable Work" in the 2012 Tupelo Press Open Reading Contest. A novella, "An Invisible River," is a Kindle book written by Christian Thompson available on Amazon. Thompson's publishing history and books for sale on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble may be found on his literary website, christianthompsonpoet.com. He is the Literary Executor of the Estate of Hayden Carruth, one of the most important and influential poets and critics of the 20th century. 
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