Kung Fu Of The Dark Father: Poems

Kung Fu of the Dark Father presents not only the poet's father, the author's own enigmas, but also a veritable lineage of men confronting what Lorca describes as the duende in art and life--mythology's insistence that one must enter the underworld before there is any hope of bearing light. Here we meet a destruction derby hero, the Rolling Stones, Freud's cocaine habit, Meriwether Lewis' less than heroic return from the great West; St. Augustine, Copernicus, Hemingway's third son--each facing a darkness that poetry helps bear. There are also wild gurus, wandering monks--a terrestrial crew despite celestial aspirations--the human in each of us, with clay feet under a tainted moon. __________________ - Praise for Dane Cervine's Poetry - ...has a fine sense both of language and the interconnectedness of human lives that for me is at the heart of poetry. --Adrienne Rich, author of Later Poems: Selected & New ...poems that matter...the beauty and pain of life become indistinguishable. Deliciously full of joy, insight, and awe. --Ellen Bass, author of Like a Beggar/ ...it is really the passion and precision...that earns my full attention. --Tony Hoagland, author of Application for Release from the Dream: Poems ...clear struck bells. --Jane Hirshfield, author of The Beauty

• | Author: Dane Cervine
• | Publisher: Plain View Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 136 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1632100312
• | ISBN-13: 9781632100313