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By Victor Schwartzman, on 12-10-2007 17:23

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Flowers in the Shadow of the Storm

Christopher Cunningham/$18
1st edition/limited 100 copies
Sunnyoutside
P.O. Box 911
Buffalo, NY14207
www.sunnyoutside.com

REVIEWED by Eugenia Hepworth Petty

It is always amusing for me to read from authors that they are “old as fuck” when they are at least a decade younger than me, but I find in Christopher Cunningham’s latest body of work Flowers in the Shadow of the Storm a wisdom that belies his age. As a writer of similar method to Mr. Cunningham, I prefer what my friend Christopher Robin dubs “first click best click” writing: a new take on the older Ginsberg adage of “first thought best thought.”

When words pour forth without a need for an inordinate amount of editing, wringing of hands, thesaurus referencing, or slam contest second guessing, and those words express something you may not be able to put your finger on, but which nevertheless bring an  “aha” to your lips, then you know you have found something worthy of the label poetry. Mr. Cunningham’s eighth chapbook is no mere wisp of a stapled chap (as my own first chap was), but a formally bound book. The review copy sports a plain gray cover, but I was intrigued by the professional feel.

The poems inside Flowers… do justice to the presentation. Succinct and imagistic, Cunningham’s poems brought me into nameless towns, bedsides strewn with cold sheets, grayness through windows, and the feeling one gets awakening yet again to “a bleeding morning”, “waiting on the sun.” There are only 100 copies in this first run, and I’m buying mine now, so hurry! This is a rare find.
 
 

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