![]() ![]() ![]() Constructing poems from both personal narratives and lyrical observations, Meyerhofer not only ventures into the realm of memory to capture those times that teach us that surviving can turn into hope, he also finds poetic moments in everyday life. ![]() What other poet has written a poem about skateboarding at 33 to show how the spirit stays alive in spite of being contained in an aging body? One particularly moving poem is ' Full Count' which details older men trying to recapture past glory on a baseball field who 'lumber around the bases, bellies heavy.' What unites this intense and compelling collection is DiSarro’s knowledge that, in spite of the complexity of being human, we cannot allow passion and laughter to get swallowed by a world that threatens to drown out music, to drown out song. Michael Meyerhofer's newest collection of poetry, What To Do If You're Buried Alive explores the way that the past shapes who we become. “Poems in David DiSarro’s I Used to Play in Bands are memorable because they are physical and remind us to think of people who might otherwise be forgotten like sad women in 'striped socks, whose tattooed names of ex-husbands, strained against low cotton tops.' Vivid detail about billboards that 'exercise' the eyes and of bodies that are 'marked biohazard' cause poems to glow, shift and blaze with a passion for being, for a life lived fully. ![]()
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