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- Author: Wesley Scott McMasters
- Publisher: Words Dance Publishing
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 74
- ISBN-10: 0997940409
- ISBN-13: 9780997940404
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 0.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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What strikes me most about the poems in Trying to Be a Person is how they've found their place in the family of American poetry. Descendants of Dickinson and Whitman-the grandparents of modern poetry-his poems pay homage to family members as diverse, and yet as similar, as Allen Ginsberg and Marshall Mathers.
In one poem, I hear the echo of William Carlos Williams, but instead of so much depending upon a red wheelbarrow, it's a red dress and red sweater falling over a girl's hips.
McMasters says, maybe I'll learn something, and he does in every poem, using whatever's around him, taking his readers along. Even though he claims, I don't look for the divine, he finds it, feet firmly planted in everyday experiences, holding planets in my back pocket.
- Antonio Vallone, Poetry Editor at Pennsylvania English & Publisher at MAMMOTH books
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- Author: Wesley Scott McMasters
- Publisher: Words Dance Publishing
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 74
- ISBN-10: 0997940409
- ISBN-13: 9780997940404
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 0.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
What strikes me most about the poems in Trying to Be a Person is how they've found their place in the family of American poetry. Descendants of Dickinson and Whitman-the grandparents of modern poetry-his poems pay homage to family members as diverse, and yet as similar, as Allen Ginsberg and Marshall Mathers.
In one poem, I hear the echo of William Carlos Williams, but instead of so much depending upon a red wheelbarrow, it's a red dress and red sweater falling over a girl's hips.
McMasters says, maybe I'll learn something, and he does in every poem, using whatever's around him, taking his readers along. Even though he claims, I don't look for the divine, he finds it, feet firmly planted in everyday experiences, holding planets in my back pocket.
- Antonio Vallone, Poetry Editor at Pennsylvania English & Publisher at MAMMOTH books
Reviews