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Dead Burying the Dead Under a Quaking Aspen by David Cranmer

chrislatray's review

5.0

There are poets, many of them wonderful, who learn their craft – are taught their craft – in the hallowed halls of academia, arguing lines and shapes and metaphor with other so-committed poets. Few of them reach me the way a poet who is sharing the scars that half-a-century or so of living will put on a soul, learning-by-trial a means to share them that doesn't end in self destruction. David Cranmer's debut collection proves he is one of the latter. There are several poems here that will go in
my "other people's poems" notebook, to bust out like a pocket-sized collection of wisdom one never leaves the house without, to hold forth and say with a shake, "Now this is what I am talking about." Here is a wonderful book.