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In the Capital City of Autumn
Tim Bowling is in top form in his latest collection of poetry, In the Capital City of Autumn.
Threading through autumnal themes such as the loss of his mother and the demolition of his childhood home, his children growing and the inevitable passage of time, Bowling writes with rich lyricism and imagery. Sweet William and loosely woven woollen mitts for his mother, the moon as “an egg in the pocket of a running thief” for time, salmon for eternity. In the Capital City of Autumn, the characters of The Great Gatsby come to life, and three a.m. brings wisdom. These are masterful poems, lightened with a touch of whimsy, poems to sink into on a quiet evening.
A strong collection full of beautiful lines and images
—, Reading and Walking
The titular poem is especially powerful as it repeats the line In the Capital City of Autumn in stanzas that embed moving slant rhymes such as pearhere and thiefsleep along with syllabicallyvaried rhymes such as scarecrowssnow to draw a potent picture of middle age that pulses with dream imagery inflected by poets like Neruda Stevens and Vallejo
—Catherine Owen, Freefall Magazine
Traces a chronology of age and evokes a nostalgia of childhood with the testament of domestic residue of life and the newness of meaning through expertly positioned language
—Sarah Hailstone
And on this reminder of our shared mortality the poet urges kindness to offset the scrabble of life and society and politicsIn the Capital City of Autumnis a collection of poems that speaks to our souls with a lyric at once personal and profound that is by turns downtoearth and offset by irony with aperu glimpses of self
—gillian hardingrussell, The Fiddlehead
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Dimensions:
88 Pages
8.5in * 5.75in * 0.32in
185gr
Published:
April 16, 2024
Publisher:
ISBN:
9781989496862
Language:
eng
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