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A Stony Path: Poems from Lived and Imagined Troubles

By: William Holt

Rank: 154

Backcover Text:
Anyone who experiences birth, infancy, youth, adulthood, marriage, children, grandchildren, deaths of loved ones, a full career, and finally some leisure to reflect on all these will remember triumphs, failures, griefs, grievances, anxieties and horrors and will anticipate many more. The poems here are a selection from a large anthology that I hope will never be published in its entirety.

The first chapter contains a table of contents.  New poems may continue to be added from time to time.

Stage: Completed work
Branch: Non fiction
Major form: Poetry
Primary age group: Grownup
Genres: Memoir, Horror, Biography, Historical
Classification: For everyone




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wrote on 2010-07-13 01:08:45
Fun with an edge.

I enjoyed quite a few of these poems.  There were a couple that seemed to be taking aim at people I don't know? The earlier work is more to my tastes. There is no doubt that you are a fine poet.  Fun too!

 
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theatregirl wrote on 2010-06-21 17:27:19
Extraordinary

William, I hadn't read your poetry before, and I'm deeply moved by it. Your words are musical - rich cadence. I'm especially drawn to your mythological themes and thoroughly enjoyed Pentheus to Dionysos...and I must quote this rich sequence: "And he best imagined your delight and dread, Sweet wine drunk straight from my severed head." I found the poem Daedalus and Oepipus haunting, and this section will stay with me: "I look on the sunlit Aegeon, mourn his death caused by my cleverness and my desire for freedom."
This is a beautiful book and your poetry fills a special place in the soul.

 
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Enigma wrote on 2010-06-17 19:01:55
Bill, I admired your work previously and nothing has changed. I honestly don't think reading anything on the screen sets the work off well and that applies to poetry too. So much better on paper so it would be a joy if these were in print. x
 
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Shakspere wrote on 2010-06-17 07:29:55
Hi Bill

I think the upload is fine. I read some poems I hadn't previously read before and really liked them. I only read from one section so far (here at slushpile), but I'll go back through some of the earlier ones that I'd previously read over at Autho.

Gerry


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