Home arrow List All Content arrow Reviews arrow Michael Grover: ...And Death is All Around Us
Michael Grover: ...And Death is All Around Us Print E-mail
User Rating: / 0
PoorBest 
 

By Victor Schwartzman, on 29-09-2008 16:46

Views : 506

Published in : OW! Site Content, Reviews

…And Death is All Around Us
Michael Grover
Covert Press
24 pgs

available at www.covertpress.com

Reviewed by: Jack Henry
Jack is a truly fine author in his own right, check out his stuff on OW!

“And Death is All Around Us” is an amazing find.  

When I read Michael Grover I am never sure what to expect.  His words are often tough, angry, belligerent but always honest.  In this text, a volume of poems dedicated to his grandmother and a memorial to her recent passing, Grover has gone beyond any expectation I could have had of him.

Not only is the poetry brilliant, it also contains every aspect I look for in a good poem.  Heart.  Soul.  Vibrancy.  Compassion.  Emotion.  Affectation.  This is just a solid and complete collection of work.
From “Brushing Grandma’s Hair.”

    “…Later at the dinner table
    She speaks of having her hair brushed.
    My father and I
    Both say that we did it.
    We look at each other realizing we’ve been
    conned.
    She just smiles knowingly.”

This is just a brief glimpse of how important she was both to Michael and his father.

From “A Tough Month.”

    My father called me
    Crying this afternoon.
    Grandma went to the doctor,
    She is not coming back out.
    She is going to the hospice
    Where they will prepare her to pass on.”

Devastating lines that only dig deeper and deeper, examining the dark spaces that only a true poet can discover.

Michael Grover is also well known for his political points of view and his fearlessness in presenting them.  I kept waiting and sure enough it hit, and in a fantastic way.  Very sly and true, like a frying pan in the face.

    “Huddle House” (Complete)

    On the way to her funeral
    Father and I stop
    At the Huddle House in rural Georgia
    We stop
    Because it was one of her
    Favorite places to eat

    The food is greasy
    And not so good
    On the way out
    On the bulletin board
    A flyer that says
    “Whites Only Party”
    In big bold black letters

This is a phenomenal work and the quotes I use truly do not do the text justice.  It’s a strong, honest, emotional work, so get off your ass and buy this text.

Last update : 01-10-2008 19:23

    
Quote this article in website
Favoured
Print
Send to friend
Related articles
Save this to del.icio.us

Users' Comments  RSS feed comment
 

Average user rating

   (0 vote)

  

Display 1 of 1 comments
[+] Expand comment

buy it

By: uncle willie (Guest) on 01-10-2008 22:43

[-] Collapse comment

buy it

By: uncle willie (Guest IP 75.47.204.178) on 01-10-2008 22:43

just buy it. don't fucking hesitate,. go now. stop reading this...do it...

 

» Report this comment to administrator

» Reply to this comment...

Display 1 of 1 comments



Add your comment
[-] Hide form
Name
E-mail
Title  
Comment
 
Available characters: 600
   Notify me of follow-up comments
  This image contains a scrambled text, it is using a combination of colors, font size, background, angle in order to disallow computer to automate reading. You will have to reproduce it to post on my homepage
Enter what you see:
   
   



mXcomment 1.0.8 © 2007-2008 - visualclinic.fr
License Creative Commons - Some rights reserved
< Prev   Next >
Buy our book!
Click below to learn more about OW's first book and the winner of the Jack Micheline Memorial Award.
Advertisement
About OW!
Outsider Writers have been distributing chapbooks in dark subterranean caverns for too long. The corporate presses and literary institutions have no vision. The media is irrelevant. It's time to rise into the sun!

Our Goal: Unite the write! We will join forces where we are strong, eliminate duplication of effort where we are weak and put the power and authority over literature back into the hands of the only legitimate owners: the authors and the readers.
Sign our Petition!
Tell Amazon you'd like to see a category for Independent writers on their site! Sign our petition.
Hot Articles