Longshot & Ghazal

[Angeline]

is the title of Dennis Mahagin's second collection of poems and it is a stunner. Some of you may remember this poet from days gone by. I got my copy earlier this week and wanted to share with you how good it is--just a wild ride of poetry that is simultaneously off the wall and movingly human. To me it reads as if a benign Beat-influenced, culture-drenched alien were providing color commentary of life on Earth. It has many ghazals along with free verse and prose poetry. Well you should just read it because this guy is going places and he writes like a dream. Dennis is the real deal! Oh and the book has been nominated for the 2014 CLMP Firecracker Award.

So go Dennis! Where else could I find out that puffins invented the Bossa Nova? Nowhere! And if you want to check out Longshot & Ghazal, you can read more here.

 

[playcatch]

He really is good. I still remember his shoes and his intelligent irreverence which was not mere cleverness. Many people can snipe, be clever. He has soul. I wish him well & will buy his book (what better Holiday gift for one's poet friends?)

 

[Angeline]

He really is good. I still remember his shoes and his intelligent irreverence which was not mere cleverness. Many people can snipe, be clever. He has soul. I wish him well & will buy his book (what better Holiday gift for one's poet friends?)

The book is really wonderful. His writing astonishes me--the way he whirls through ideas and images across themes. And I think the selection of poems in the book and their order is just masterful!

 

[Angeline]

Bump because you need to discover this guy's poetry!

 

[Senna Jawa]

Bump because you need to discover this guy's poetry!

In this bump we see: this and guy, that's all. That's, Angeline, a great bump on the way to information . Thus let's look at the previous post, still by Angeline--we can read: The book and His writing. Still no information. Now let's go one back, this time to the post by playcatch--we get this battery of pronouns: He and his and his and He and him and his. And still no information.

Well, three is a charm. And that's--by the way--how a lot of poetry looks like here around Literotica, and elsewhere too.

bumpy road
take me home​

because I am not going to go anywhere else .

 

[Angeline]

In this bump we see: this and guy, that's all. That's, Angeline, a great bump on the way to information . Thus let's look at the previous post, still by Angeline--we can read: The book and His writing. Still no information. Now let's go one back, this time to the post by playcatch--we get this battery of pronouns: He and his and his and He and him and his. And still no information.

Well, three is a charm. And that's--by the way--how a lot of poetry looks like here around Literotica, and elsewhere too.

bumpy road
take me home​

because I am not going to go anywhere else .

I didn't want to seem spammy, but there is a link at the end of the first post.

He also has a Facebook page under the title Longshot & Ghazal where one can read some excerpts.

 

[Senna Jawa]

I didn't want to seem spammy, [...]

Spam is not an issue here, not at all.

Instead of pronouns and similar--s/he that etc.--one should provide (each time!) the names, the links, the titles, etc. Otherwise I'll stay at home.

 

[butters]

Spam is not an issue here, not at all.

Instead of pronouns and similar--s/he that etc.--one should provide (each time!) the names, the links, the titles, etc. Otherwise I'll stay at home.

everything - the author, the name of the book AND the link were all provided by Angeline in her initial post.

 

[pelegrino]

Well, three is a charm. And that's--by the way--how a lot of poetry looks like here around Literotica, and elsewhere too.

Is this another manifestation of the "rule of three" that 1201 was talking about?

He doesn't seem to be around or else I would ask him.