Author : Lee Slonimsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941550571
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (55 download)
Book Synopsis Red-Tailed Hawk on Wall Street by : Lee Slonimsky
Download or read book Red-Tailed Hawk on Wall Street written by Lee Slonimsky and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again in "Red-Tailed Hawk on Wall Street" Lee Slonimsky shows himself to be a scientist-poet, a mathematician-poet, a conjurer poet. Slonimsky's is a unique and generous vision that teaches us how to experience the natural world in its stunning originality as if for the first time. The poet's sense of being at one with nature is powerful because it is both metaphoric and literal. Just as the poet envisions a transmigration of souls, the poems transmigrate from the present to something eternal. This is a book of great range: in form (some sonnets, some not), in content (there are love poems, persona poems, humorous poems, solemn ones), but all ""glide through early mists." For there is an honest and lovely optimism that leaves the reader refreshed: as Slonimsky wisely says in "Pythagoras Looks Ahead," ..".transmigration is the greatest gift/that atoms in their weavery allow. No time to mourn each phase that he has left: /each new form's all the world that he can know." Slonimsky's is a vision of the world that should not be missed. Elizabeth J. Coleman, author of "Proof" In these sonnets and alter sonnets Lee Slonimsky weaves a unified field where the Red-tailed hawk in Manhattan and the stock trader in the Catskills thrive. From ferns to stars, atoms to galaxies, mystical mathematics to dragonflies, we are reminded that "The wind may soon be your identity./ It rustles leaves, then stills; a night bird flutes/ and empty seems the new geometry." Always witness to an underlying order in all things, within the signature of all things, Slonimsky's poems trace the lineaments, the outlines of that order which can never be fully disclosed because it is infinite, but can be gleaned through poetry. His hawks soaring and circling above Wall Street are more than metaphor, but a truth that nature is always poised to reclaim us as her own. This insight becomes reconfigured in these lively, re-invented sonnets and poems fresh and vibrant with the poet's embrace of intuitions ancient and daily. Stuart Bartow, author of "Einstein's Lawn" Lee Slonimsky's "Red-Tailed Hawk on Wall Street" is a triangle of poetry with Wall Street, Nature, and Pythagoras as the three sides. His muse is the red-tailed hawk, who flies over city and field-sometimes as predator, other times as observer. Slonimsky's skillful sonnets include a delightful one in which different trees boast particular dialects. There are fine romantic poems set in Italy and France, and everywhere this most unusual stock trader reveals his poetic soul. Carolyn Raphael, author, "The Most Beautiful Room in the World "and "Dancing with Bare Feet"
