Wisteria from Seed

By Jeremy Cantor

Jeremy Cantor's collection, Wisteria from Seed...finds universals in the quotidian, insinuating the reader into Cantor's personal narrative, its meaning disguised in the plain dress of moment to moment experience . . . Poems like 'The Full Set' and 'Display Case' . . . read to me like Faulkner, but not stream-of-consciousness so much as stream of reflection. -from the foreword by Michael Manning, former Classical Music Critic/Arts Correspondent, The Boston Globe These verses-which recount escapes (of Boston terriers, fishing lures, and Warsaw grandparents), losses, longings, memories (like the blade of grass that becomes a harp string linking boy and girl), and events unseen yet known-turn on the experience of loving and being loved. Jeremy Cantor's poems strike chords at once tender and unsentimental. There is truth here, and a gentle music. -Robert Aquinas McNally, Songs of the Two Names and Simply to Know its Name (Grayson Books 2012 and 2014 prize winners), author or coauthor of nine books of nonfiction, four-time Pushcart Prize nominee The poems in Wisteria from Seed will find roots in the reader's soul. Jeremy Cantor is a poet who is able to create intricate and resonant images through the simplest of details. As in the title poem's first line 'Almost No one grows wisteria from seed,' the writer understands how to grow meaning from the seeds of words. In this collection, each stanza of each poem is imbued with grace and shades of our deepest truths. From the hawk moth to changing shadows on a school room floor, Cantor uses his voice to guide us through the beauty of human frailty. From start to finish, there are blessings inside each fold of each poem. As stated in one of the later poems, 'Passing Through' Cantor explores two worlds "with doors on both sides open". - Connie Post, author of Floodwater

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692320806
• ISBN13: 9780692320808
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Alabaster Leaves Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"