Dos Madres Press Mayhap, paperback/david giannini

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Poetry.

There is a singular pleasure in very short poems.

David Giannini's reach in many directions: sharp observation, laughter, love, grief, irony, bitterness, wonderment.

Reading these poems I kept wondering if there are some themes so wide that only a very short poem can handle them.

You want a poem on love? How about death? Maybe the weather, autumn leaves, an owl, a coyote, chestnuts, a breakfast spoon, a parent's casket? Poems like these fit snugly into the real world.

At the same time, they are sinewy objects that concentrate all of the poet's 'powers.

' I guess that means this book is a medicine bundle.

--Andrew Schelling.