It Will Be All Right in the Morning: Poems

by Michael Burns

In his plain-spoken lyrics and dramatic monologues, Michael Burns digs at the marrow of living. His poems-in formal and free verse-are quick, incisive, and always capable of revealing the dark whimsy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557285160
• ISBN13: 9781557285164
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Flashes of Light (in the distance)

This book trembles slightly in one's hands, full of life, but seems to stop short of a certain kind of intensity promised by little riffs such as "Willy Ballard". I really enjoyed this book, but wish one or three of the poems struggled a little bit harder to find themselves. Many of the poems are simply precisely abbreviated stories, and one wishes a sequence would begin to emerge--something to throw the reader off balance occasionally, something that crosses back and forth over imaginary borders. Still, "When God Met Adam and Eve for breakfast" is a fabulous poem, and there are many others. Burns has the talent. He needs to write a few poems without a net.