Dais by Francis Klein
$14.99
Francis Klein finds inspiration everywhere He celebrates the life of a collector of quilts and leaps beyond her achievement:
“I am hung
on the wall of the real, a Maker Unknown’s
temporary anchor.
Klein is always a careful observer- sometimes delighted, sometimes stunned — but late in this collection in a poem titled “Hydrangeas,” as if he can’t, finally resist, he offers wonderful and welcome advice:
Be a seed
Blown away
By the interstellar.
Plant yourself
In the comet’s ice.
My life is richer for my acquaintance with Klein’s imagination and his text. No reader is likely to feel otherwise.
–Bill Littlefield, Host of NPR’s “Only a Game,” and author of several books, including The Circus in the Woods and Take Me Out.
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
In his assured new collection that contains both muscle and heart, Francis Klein brings back the dead to dance with the living. Pulsing with immediacy, his persona poems are beautiful and brash declarations that evoke the quality of hymns. In a section featuring dances that range from Hustle to Ballroom Tango, the poet grabs the reader for a “push-pull of lead and follow…” gifting us, in poem after poem, with “the infinitesimal connection held in the drumbeat of the instant.” “Dais” is remarkable!
–Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Cave Canem Poetry Fellow; Author of “Something Beautiful”
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
Description
Dais
by Francis Klein
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-092-1
2017
Francis Klein is an award-winning poet who published Podebrady in 2011 and Untouched by Morning in 2012 with Finishing Line Press. His work has appeared in Mudfish 18, Fear of Success, A Letter Among Friends, red herring ii, Lion Rampant, Penumbra, Oberon, and The Ledge. He was a finalist in the 2015 Richard Snyder Prize of the Ashland Poetry Press and the 2012 Many Voices Project of the New Rivers Press. While attending Harvard University, he studied poetry with John Frederick Nims and also received the Dante Society of America Prize for an essay on the Inferno. After studying architecture at Yale University, Francis Klein developed an architectural practice focusing on contemporary and historical work in New Jersey and New York. In this work, Francis Klein explores the relationships among the arts, history, and biography.
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