Sundown by Ed Gold

$17.99

 

You will strike gold and silver and the hard granite of poetry in Ed Gold‘s new chapbook, Sundown. In twenty-seven well-wrought poems we get an entire life, starting with a boy’s shenanigans at Hebrew school, to grandfatherhood. Rollicking centos, haibuns, experiments in intertextuality and unique takes on history and scripture will wow you. But more important than the brilliance, is the heart that shines through the verbal dexterity.  In the words of an old fifties song, You gotta have heart. These poems have it—prepare to chuckle, catch your breath, and perhaps tear-up a bit while reading Ed Gold‘s Sundown.

–Richard Garcia

 

 

 

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Sundown

by Ed Gold

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$17.99

979-8-88838-399-5

2023

Sundown— a life in poetry—from childhood to first love, loss, bewilderment, aging—and acceptance. There are many forms of poetry here, including the fugue, haibun, haiku, and one of Ed’s favorites–the cento. Centos created out of product names, classic haikus, lost Elizabethan words, Trumpian crazy talk, and Neruda’s questions. For an exciting read, these poems by Ed Gold show great skill, and more important, great heart.

Ed is a poet from Baltimore with an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. Ed taught in the English department at the University of Maryland for 15 years and wrote poetry intensely. Then he stepped back from poetry and plunged into the Washington, D.C, federal government arena as a writer, writing trainer, and editor. In his sixties, he bloomed again, churning out poems and working with an amazing group of poets in Charleston, South Carolina. He and his wife, Amy, live in Charleston with their dog, Edie. His first chapbook, Owl, was published by SCOP Press.

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