Description
Poetry. The world is sensuously and immediately present in Gerald Fleming's SWIMMER CLIMBING ONTO SHORE. While these poems question the capacity of language to render the heart of human existence, the poet's words never fail to praise the transformative power of art in making sense of that existence. "Love is the catalyst, but so also is wit, unexpected and inexorably delivered," says Diana O Hehir of this collection. "In a voice of condensed, colloquial intimacy sobered by awareness of the world's menace and acknowledging the irrational in himself, [Fleming] reaches a high compassionate humor as he infuses his exploration with the surprising pleasure of sudden discovery"—Jack Marshall.
Author Bio
Gerald Fleming is the author of five books of poetry including THE BASTARD AND THE BISHOP (Hanging Loose Press, 2021), ONE (Hanging Loose Press, 2017), THE CHOREOGRAPHER (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2013), NIGHT OF PUR BREATHING (Hanging Loose Press, 2011), and SWIMMER CLIMBING ONTO SHORE (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2005) and numerous books for teachers. He taught for thirty-seven years in San Francisco's public schools, has edited literary magazines traditional, epistolary, and vitreous, and recently edited THE COLLECTED POETRY AND PROSE OF LAWRENCE FIXEL (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2020). He lives most of the year in the Far West, and, if there's no plague occurring, part of the year in Paris.
Author City: LAGUNITAS, CA USA