Late Alabama Poems

By Joel Fry

Joel Fry's poems chart a deeply interior quest. Though the object is predictable-understanding, love, friendship, hope-the poems are highly original. Deep within, where external and internal landscape merge, where easy solutions like monetary success and comfortable suburbia go down before a sharp irony, we meet fleeting memories of a childhood farm, a creek beside which boys played, rare moments of love where a couple sits on a porch. We also meet loneliness, despair, glimpses of truth, and a pervasive joy in the act of creation. The poems are disciplined, intuitive, paradoxical, richly imagined-repaying, over and over, the attention and agility required of those who would follow the poet. Fry leaves us "poised on the edge of a mystery / we] cannot command, a chorus we] cannot escape." Harry Moore, author of Time's Fool and Bearing the Farm Away

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1977220886
• ISBN13: 9781977220882
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"