The Morning I Married The Sky: Poems Inspired by Rumi, Billy Collins and more - Softcover

Dingman, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492852597 ISBN 13: 9781492852599

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Billy Collins has written of Chris Dingman's poetry, "You definitely have something going here: the quick take, unexpected turn-arounds, lots of playfulness... delightful in many instances."

Like the poetry of Collins, as well as that of Robert Frost, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Bob Dylan, Dingman's is both literary and accessible.

As reviewers have attested, Dingman's poems are also “soulful and wistful and whimsical at the same time,” with “more than a bit of cheeky humor thrown in.” These are poems that “really see the world,” but will also “give you ideas you didn’t have before.”

Funny and tender. Surprising and resonant. The wondrous in the everyday. "A sparrow's feet on palm fronds."

Selections from The Morning I Married the Sky:

go niners or something
if I had a football team
their colors would be
oak-leaf green against
the gold of dry summer
California grass
about an hour
before sunset and
practice would be
canceled constantly

you don't build up
you don’t build up
good works and drag
them in a bag
up to heaven and then
unpack them
before the almighty
for his approval

god is whistling, will
you sing along?


To read Dingman's poems is to cancel practice, to sing along with god, to marry the sky.

For more from and about Chris Dingman, who now writes under the pen name Chris Spark, visit www.Sparkwrites.com

About this title

About the Author

Chris Dingman—who has been writing under the pen name Chris Spark since 2018—graduated from Harvard University, where he wrote humor for The Harvard Lampoon and also began writing poetry. Since then, he has optioned a comedy screenplay to Warner Bros., published several books of poetry, released three CDs of original music with the folk-rock band Crooked Roads, and worked as a teacher and private tutor in math and science. One of Chris’ pieces was recently included alongside those of John Updike and Conan O’Brien in The Best of the Harvard Lampoon: 140 Years of American Humor. He is a contributor to The American Bystander, which Newsweek called “the last great humor magazine.”

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1492852597
• ISBN 13: 9781492852599
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132