Grandpa's Farm, poetry

By Dan Lukiv

Comments on "The Farm"

"This is the poem 'The Farm'] that will make Lukiv] famous I love the whole thing I] love this stanza]: 'And the preserves, / Concealed and protected in Sheol, / Where 15-year-old cherries in dusty jars / Lay still as boredom- / Still as eggs of prehistoric fish / Embalmed in rock.' Very vivid imagery throughout. 'But it's the dungeon, / The cellar, that I see, / In the grassy hump between the house / and outhouse. / Grandpa, who baked pies like / A magician, / Who finally sent his wife to / The mental institution, / Floats in one of those jars, / Beside the cherry eyeballs, / Pickled in time, / Themeless, without the flow of / Fiction, or even non-fiction. // Grandpa, gone in the coffin / That must be going- / I loved his pies so much / I want to cry.' Incredible ," Jan Bara, peer reviewer, The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education.

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022.

Previously published as Summer on the Farm (LukivPress Online Quesnel, BC], 2007).

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An excerpt

We buried grandpa-
Still his wind-up watch ticks
In my heart.

The author

Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 170799191X
• ISBN13: 9781707991914
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"