Whirlpool, poetry

By Dan Lukiv

Whirlpool, previously published as The Lead Guitarist:

[The Lead Guitarist] thoroughly deserves [publication],", D M Thomas, England's internationally celebrated poet, novelist, biographer, and translator.

"To come across original and brilliant poetry [as in Lukiv's The Lead Guitarist], and to be moved by it upon first reading is a rare experience for me...[It] caused a...stir in my stomach....[A] most excellent work", Robert Delamar, *spark.

"I have read and re-read, and lived awhile, with The Lead Guitarist...There is much in [Lukiv's] work that I admire", William Slaughter, Mudlark (USA).

"I enjoyed [this collection of poems]", Rod Riesco, Wilderswood Press (England).

"Well-written", Melanie Callahan, Caitlin Press.

"I truly enjoyed reading [this]", I.R.B., Dead End Street Publications (USA).

"Very good," Richard Olafson, Ekstasis Editions.

"Interesting", Anamnesis Press (USA).

"A definite quality", Ekstasis Editions.

"A good manuscript", M. L. Moeller, Sunflower Press (USA).

...I liked ['Tarantula'] best....[, ] 'The Lead Guitarist'...next", Geoff Stevens, Purple Patch (England).

"The staff...enjoyed ['The Lead Guitarist'] very much", Lonni Gause, Guitar Player (USA).

"I certainly enjoyed reading....['The Lead Guitarist']", Tanis Nessler, Focus.

"I'm accepting all the poems...! Some GREAT material...especially enjoyed 'The Lead Guitarist, '" Dick Metcalf, Improvijazzation Nation (USA).

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Sardis, BC), 2022.

An excerpt

The Lead Guitarist

From a winter-scarred porch,
I peer at the skyline-
I'm a radar
Scanning for altitude
(Not that you should steer
By radar: that's like inviting rocks
Into your hull).

I see lines of Trans Atlantic
Clouds
As grey as poor rhythm
And as long as Beethoven's ninth.
But I imagine them as
Simply grey beasts,
Or ship-punching fists,
Or strings of blue hearts lost
In Les Paul-pickups-
Pickups that change finger-licking
Scribbles
Into electric licks
And screams.

I scan the blue sky above
The grey lines;
I'm a Malibu surfer
Sighting a dream-wave,
A Cariboo logger
Attacking lunch,

And a sunbather
With red shades.

Before my day ends,
I'll turn the colour blue
Into an overdrive-
Feast,

In spite of the ache-
In spite of /Me.

The author

Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1694880109
• ISBN13: 9781694880109
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"