To Kiss the Other Bird Beyond the Glass

By Samantha L. Rames

In To Kiss the Other Bird Beyond the Glass Samantha L. Rames pays attention to how the things of this world might turn out: goldfish can go belly up, the smart boy in kindergarten might kick sand in your face, the twister might sweep your car off the road. And surely there's mildew on the lid of the Cool Whip carton at Grandma's house. Paper cutters in the school craft room are bound to be guillotines. It's a tilted, skewed world that somebody needs to keep an eye on, and who better than a young poet with the observation skills and crap detector of a person twice her years? Nothing escapes the conscience of these poems, especially in circumstances when someone is behaving like a phony or a bully. There's going to be hell to pay. In fact, the important question implied in the book turns out to be, How to negotiate life's less-than-perfect path (regardless of what's at the end of it). With forgiveness and humor, the poems tell us. "As a young child, I knew nothing of the world," the poet says. But she has learned a thing or two, and her book is better-yes, braver-for it. There is honesty in these poems, and ultimately there's love. -Susan Laughter Meyers, author of Keep and Give Away

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1470012049
• ISBN13: 9781470012045
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.3"