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Hard to Love

M. Scott Douglass

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Description:There's a lot to love in M. Scott Douglass's new book of poems, Hard to Love. The language's vernacular precision--its unerring homage to who we are, what life is like, how time passes relentlessly as we cling frantically to its bucking back--is wonderfully, wholly authentic. These wry poems are funny, tough and provocative. Douglass possesses a keen and irreverent eye, an ear pressed to the burning road, the heart and soul of biker.--Joseph Bathanti M. Scott Douglass is a poet in the spirit of Charles Bukowski--but better, more controlled. The sheer exuberance and profusion of his work is heartening, and each poem is filled with intelligence, wit, intensity, and raw energy. Ranging over his own life and the lives of those he loves, Douglass rewrites his experience in language that speaks the simple and heartening truth.--Stephen E. Smith In M. Scott Douglass's collection Hard to Love, the narrator quips, "doesn't love fix everything?" Douglass knows it doesn't, but he and his characters still long for the grace love brings. For a throng of modern-day posers--gallery crawlers, Drew Barrymore and Sinbad wannabees--Douglass offers parody rather than affection. He reserves a special kind of rage for media pimps--the Aflac duck, Ann Coulter, the Capital One barbarians--who send the rest of us limping to the mailbox like Charles Bukowski's persona to find only a Visa card bill, and "a letter from the mortgage people." Ah, but for those Beat down-and-outers--those who "cuddle a bottle of Jim Beam" or lie "naked on the couch, / a loaded revolver on the floor beside" them--Douglass's poems are gritty valentines. In chunks of prose as solid as a "fifty pound, unabridged Holy Bible," he reminds us why bikers and others living on the fringe can be "Angels," offering grace even as they receive it.--Janice Fuller Knowing Scott Douglass as I do, I usually know what to expect in his poetry, but after reading this new collection, I was blown away. This is his best work yet. These poems speak with honesty and sometimes brutal imagery of his younger days in Pennsylvania, remembering the pain and pleasures of adolescence, his hopes for the future, and the desperation of moving on, as he writes, "I got out with memories intact,/fear and respect for those I left behind…" Yet, this work is also contemporary, and draws upon our pop culture, intertwining images and language of television commercials, trends in electronic media, e-readers, the current political climate, and that icon of the road, the Mustang. Douglass reminds us we are human with all our flaws as he recounts the misgivings and misfortunes of friends and acquaintances, yet with wit and keen observation. I sense a profound respect for everyone he writes about, from the man with the big head to Oklahoma Jack to his traveling companion in Mustang Days. He frequently finds himself on the road, and in the end "…the light changes." He writes, "A twist of the wrist/and I am thunder./I am wind. I/am gone."Read this collection. You'll laugh. You might even cry, but you will enjoy it. Douglass may be Hard to Love, but you'll love this book.--Jonathan K. RiceEditor/PublisherIodine Poetry Journal Scott Douglass has a sharp eye and an even sharper, irreverent wit, as evidenced in his new collection of poems. And he isn’t afraid to use his rapier tools at any location, from “Wally World” to a poetry reading at an art gallery to “the aisle at St. Luke’s,” on any individual. Hard to Love is peopled with the famous/infamous, including Bernie Madoff, Martha Stewart, Sinbad, and Ann Coulter, and a fascinating array of people we may or may not know, such as Sister Francis, TK the Chick Magnet, Oklahoma Jack, and a teenage girl “in a bunched metallic micro-skirt, bright red spandex top, shin-high space boots.” Oh, and not one but two appearances of “the man with the big head,” about whom Douglass asks, “Is it hard to love him?” Meet this poet at “At the Intersection of Boredom and Anxiety” as he gathers evidence about how hard to love we can all be, we, who by dint of our shared humanity, are all contributing to “an ever-evolving community canvas.” ... Curious? Let the poetry reading begin.Maureeen Ryan GriffinWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hard to Love. To get started finding Hard to Love, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 104

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Main Street Rag Publishing Company

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1599483424

Description: There's a lot to love in M. Scott Douglass's new book of poems, Hard to Love. The language's vernacular precision--its unerring homage to who we are, what life is like, how time passes relentlessly as we cling frantically to its bucking back--is wonderfully, wholly authentic. These wry poems are funny, tough and provocative. Douglass possesses a keen and irreverent eye, an ear pressed to the burning road, the heart and soul of biker.--Joseph Bathanti M. Scott Douglass is a poet in the spirit of Charles Bukowski--but better, more controlled. The sheer exuberance and profusion of his work is heartening, and each poem is filled with intelligence, wit, intensity, and raw energy. Ranging over his own life and the lives of those he loves, Douglass rewrites his experience in language that speaks the simple and heartening truth.--Stephen E. Smith In M. Scott Douglass's collection Hard to Love, the narrator quips, "doesn't love fix everything?" Douglass knows it doesn't, but he and his characters still long for the grace love brings. For a throng of modern-day posers--gallery crawlers, Drew Barrymore and Sinbad wannabees--Douglass offers parody rather than affection. He reserves a special kind of rage for media pimps--the Aflac duck, Ann Coulter, the Capital One barbarians--who send the rest of us limping to the mailbox like Charles Bukowski's persona to find only a Visa card bill, and "a letter from the mortgage people." Ah, but for those Beat down-and-outers--those who "cuddle a bottle of Jim Beam" or lie "naked on the couch, / a loaded revolver on the floor beside" them--Douglass's poems are gritty valentines. In chunks of prose as solid as a "fifty pound, unabridged Holy Bible," he reminds us why bikers and others living on the fringe can be "Angels," offering grace even as they receive it.--Janice Fuller Knowing Scott Douglass as I do, I usually know what to expect in his poetry, but after reading this new collection, I was blown away. This is his best work yet. These poems speak with honesty and sometimes brutal imagery of his younger days in Pennsylvania, remembering the pain and pleasures of adolescence, his hopes for the future, and the desperation of moving on, as he writes, "I got out with memories intact,/fear and respect for those I left behind…" Yet, this work is also contemporary, and draws upon our pop culture, intertwining images and language of television commercials, trends in electronic media, e-readers, the current political climate, and that icon of the road, the Mustang. Douglass reminds us we are human with all our flaws as he recounts the misgivings and misfortunes of friends and acquaintances, yet with wit and keen observation. I sense a profound respect for everyone he writes about, from the man with the big head to Oklahoma Jack to his traveling companion in Mustang Days. He frequently finds himself on the road, and in the end "…the light changes." He writes, "A twist of the wrist/and I am thunder./I am wind. I/am gone."Read this collection. You'll laugh. You might even cry, but you will enjoy it. Douglass may be Hard to Love, but you'll love this book.--Jonathan K. RiceEditor/PublisherIodine Poetry Journal Scott Douglass has a sharp eye and an even sharper, irreverent wit, as evidenced in his new collection of poems. And he isn’t afraid to use his rapier tools at any location, from “Wally World” to a poetry reading at an art gallery to “the aisle at St. Luke’s,” on any individual. Hard to Love is peopled with the famous/infamous, including Bernie Madoff, Martha Stewart, Sinbad, and Ann Coulter, and a fascinating array of people we may or may not know, such as Sister Francis, TK the Chick Magnet, Oklahoma Jack, and a teenage girl “in a bunched metallic micro-skirt, bright red spandex top, shin-high space boots.” Oh, and not one but two appearances of “the man with the big head,” about whom Douglass asks, “Is it hard to love him?” Meet this poet at “At the Intersection of Boredom and Anxiety” as he gathers evidence about how hard to love we can all be, we, who by dint of our shared humanity, are all contributing to “an ever-evolving community canvas.” ... Curious? Let the poetry reading begin.Maureeen Ryan GriffinWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hard to Love. To get started finding Hard to Love, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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