Mortal Soup and the Blue Yonder

By C.B. Anderson

C.B. Anderson was a gardener for many years, and the poems in Mortal Soup and the Blue Yonder are profoundly connected to the world of fertility and natural growth. Flowers, fresh earth, trees, shrubs, birds, pollen, fish, insects, fields and farm -- all of them and more provide the backdrop for many of Anderson's poems. But this is more than a poetry-of-nature book, filled with greenery. Anderson uses nature not decoratively, but as a key to understanding the passions, fears, and uncertainties that govern our lives. In addition, Anderson's sure mastery of the iambic line gives us poems as slick as greased lightning: carefully measured, lucid, well-rhymed, with every t crossed and i dotted in satisfying closure. This book goes against the grain of fashionable mainstream vagueness and sloppiness, and shows that the new formalism is alive, well, and kicking. ~ Joseph S. Salemi Editor, TRINACRIA

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615819214
• ISBN13: 9780615819211
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: White Violet Press
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"