Uncomfortable Minds: Poems - Softcover

Sorkin, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1642505250 ISBN 13: 9781642505252

Publisher: TMA Press, 2021

Synopsis

“Uncomfortable minds” is Larry’s Sorkin’s riff on poet e.e. cummings ‘ words, “Cambridge ladies who...are unbeautiful and have comfortable mind” which refer to the conceit that uncomfortable minds are universal to all human beings. Larry Sorkin’s collection of poems―sometimes joyful, sometimes elegiac―explore the idea of the restless, uncomfortable state as either something we can run from, try to fix, or embrace. Each poem in the collection explores some disturbance in the psyche, with poetry as a way to confront the disturbance, use it, embrace it.

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About the Author

Larry Sorkin is a some-of-the-time Charlotte, North Carolina poet, a part-time business man and an occasional performer of poetry with the classical music group, The Bechtler Ensemble. He presents workshops exploring the connections between poetry and fine arts, dance, music and depth psychology. He is a summer poet in residence at the Airy Knoll Arts Project. Poetry didn’t come to Sorkin until his forties when he fell under the infectious influence of Robert Bly. He considers it a calling to spread the passion. He often holds up on his ridgetop overlooking the Piedmont, daydreaming into the fields and onto paper.

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He poses wilted roses in hand to be Husband to his wife, been trying on that persona for years though rarely fools himself let alone the lovely woman who humors his attempts. He puts on the requisite uniform of Businessman and steps into an office where staff pretend they know him as he struts, issues orders, puts on a serious face before declaring an important meeting and goes home for a nap. Surely, in the privacy of his room, he can convince himself it’s not an act, then dreams of becoming a Red Tailed Hawk’s drift and call over undulating hills. He’s January Rain, plunging through freezing air, then ice that shatters, melts and seeps into dirt. Awake, buoyed, he can be Anything, Anyone. In his garage, he decides to impersonate Small Engine Mechanic―isn’t every man born skilled in such? Chainsaw seeing through his ruse refuses to start.

Edition details

• Publisher: TMA Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1642505250
• ISBN 13: 9781642505252
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100