The Hope of the Air.
The Hope Of The Air
Barry Spacks
Michigan State University Press
Suite 25, Manly Miles Building, 1405 South Harrison Road, East
Lansing, MI
48823-5202
0870137328 $14.95 www.msupress.msu.edu
The Hope of the Air is a collection of poems by songwriter, actor,
literature teacher and award-winning poet Barry Spacks. Each poem is no
longer than a page or two, but all have an indefinable lighter-than-air
quality that lends a whispered, lingering impression upon one's
consciousness. An absorbing treasury of simple reflections, sometimes
witty, sometimes wistful, upon the simple challenges and celebrations of
daily life. "Message to the Widower": In an envelope in a
favorite book / she left him her final message: a lock // of her hair
... and with it the thought that she knew / surely one day he would find
it there // and how he would feel, / finding it there.
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