Taken Somehow by Surprise

By David Clewell

David Clewell's spirited poems cut through the noise we too often accommodate in our daily lives. Breath by surprising breath, this poet takes us into chambers of the heart that have never been mapped quite this way before. By turns raucous and strangely soothing, narrative and lyrical, Clewell traffics in unlikely and compelling details of our mostly discernible world: a school custodian's role in the burgeoning Space Race, the vastness of abandoned missile silos, the first lawn flamingos, and the living fossil still using a typewriter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299251144
• ISBN13: 9780299251147
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.0"