The Rise and Fall of the Mind.The Rise And Fall Of The Mind Michael Cook Author House 1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200, Bloomington, IN 47403-5161 152 East 94th Street, #6D, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10128 (author) 1425933009 $14.99 www.authorhouse.com 1-800-280-7715 "The Rise And Fall of Mind" is a 104-page collection of superbly written and highly recommended poetry by Michael Cook where each poem ranges in length fro six words to one and a half pages. The forms of the poems range from sonnets, villanelles, and pantoums, to haiku haiku (hī`k  ), an unrhymed Japanese poem recording the essence of a moment keenly perceived, in which nature is linked to human nature. , ballad, and free verse. Witty, articulate, epigrammatic ep·i·gram·mat·ic also ep·i·gram·mat·i·caladj. 1. Of or having the nature of an epigram. 2. Containing or given to the use of epigrams. , humourous, touching, occasionally grimly descriptive, each carefully crafted verse is a masterfully presented use of language to convey emotions, ideas, contexts, and world we live in. "Pollution": There is a stench of dead fish from the lake./The children are in up to their necks,/wading sweetly through glittering white bellies/that dot the grimy grim·y adj. grim·i·er, grim·i·est Covered or smudged with grime. See Synonyms at dirty. grim  i·ly adv. waters. As the day rolls on/the waves slowly fling the dead and dying/up on the beach, where the flies wait.//My feet dig into the sand/come up with two cigarette butts./Impossible to escape a globe of trash and garbage./Breathing the air, we are one with it,/with the rotting fish, the hungry flies,/the dying earth and the bloodshot blood·shotadj. Red and inflamed as a result of locally congested blood vessels, as of the eyes. bloodshot Vox populi adjective skies. |
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