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This collection of poetry, David Hunter Sutherland's first with illiterati, is a complex, diverse, and masterful work. The poems collected in this book offer a many-layered look at a reality in which perception shifts and parallax supercedes. Sutherland reaps the colors of our waking lives, sundering each vision as if picking apart the seams that bond each atom to the next, and stores these harvested dreams like grain, to wait for a time when we hunger after them, to wait for a "pause in the low rituals of life, where craving is not pagan nor sorrow cryptic."
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David Hunter Sutherland was born in Manhattan in 1962. He attended Boston University, majoring in Electrical Engineering. He is a member of the National Writers Union and the Academy of American Poets. He has won numerous awards and citations, among them the Rhysling Award and the Small Press Writers Award. He lives in upstate New York with his wife Anita.
"I feel that the techinical
diversity you may find in my work has much to do with an appreciation of and a striving to
understand the major poets of our past. The energy of expression particular to poetry must
withstand current fads or mores, and there are no better teachers than those who have gone
before. In this respect I try to imbue my work with a vision that I hope will withstand
scrutiny over time.
The power and art of poetry contributes to society in many crucial, complex ways. The
beauty of a well-executed sonnet or the free rhythms and long cadenced lines of Whitman,
Lindsay and others fulfill a universal need.
True verse must speak to its readers and raise them to higher mental plateaus."
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