David B Austell (2 results)
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Several fellow poets will read from the book and there will be live music and multi-media Little Creek is an astonishing anthology of poems from well-known American educator and poet David B Austell Containing the best of Austells work written over a decade Little Creek begins with memories of his childhood in a small American t…own set against the backdrop of Vietnam and other wars reminiscent of Robert Lowells Life Studies The poems range from a meeting with a namesake in his afterlife the morning star over a Protestant valley a last day at Lake Baikal the inheritance of wars thrust upon his nation and the people an Indian student reminding him of the immense gulf between East and West and finally to poems inspired by an imagined NASA conquest of Olympus Mons Establishing Austell as a master craftsman the roaring turbulence of these poems will for sure leave his readers breathlessFor Austell is a poet who takes his vocation seriously filling the gulfs and gaps between far-flung worlds with the incantations of his prayer-like poems Vibrant from a contemporary American idiom and voluptuous as her long legs and round hips these poems are at the same time thin as a strand of DNAAn impressive and wide-ranging intelligence permeates David Austells ambitious first book of poems Austell is a new poet with a seasoned soul and the treasures of this collection are manifold and rich He has a gift for narrative a sharp eye for detail and a passion for languageAustell writes from both the head and the heart and the poems that result are capacious and substantial enough to reward rereading Here is a bold promising debut.
