Ebook: Winter Amnesties

"Winter Amnesties" is a book of origins and endings, griefs and reconciliations. Each poem addresses the dilemma posed by G. K. Chesterton: OC One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it.OCO The poems revisit the past, assess the present, and stare hard into the future. At middle age, Glaser remembers his youth in Louisiana and settles into the long stretch of his adult years in Ohio; he makes his peace with OC the life that allows.OCO As son, as father, as poet, he looks to his legacy, whatever dim remnant of himself might continue after OC all flesh falls back to salt and cinder.OCO aaaaaaaaaaaa But these are poems of brio and bitter wit, not of self-pity and surrender. They take a jaunty stance towards life and welcome whatever the days may bring, confident that, like crows in the harvest cornfield, we can live on OC the shocks and waste of this worldOCO and OC wring gold grain from the ruin.OCO a a "