The Book Review - poem

This poem is by a great library volunteer, Theodore Hoppe.  Enjoy!


The Book Review

From the beloved bestselling author

A tale full of intrigue and murder

An excursion into the world of suspense

and misadventure

Weaving together the high tech fixing

Of a string of unexpected events

The quintesstial tale of music,

The truths and lies we tell ourselves

About life and love

Such an implausible mixture

Is only slightly less amazing than the facts

A loving moving laugh-out loud celebration

Of special friends and family

Suspenseful and morally complex

Whose meaning resonates

Probing the seamy underside of

A dark romantic and captivating secret

Unforgettable, instructive and moving

Told in a down to earth amusing and agenda free tone

A captivating examination of culture,

Race, class, death and rebirth.

Beautiful,

and as painfuly allurring as it is dangerous

Written with more warmth and grace than

we are likely to see again.

LAST MINUTE POEM FOR CHERNOBYL

Last week the Kellogg-Hubbard Library we had a program called, Chernobyl Remembered: Voices of Chernobyl. Maia Failco attended this program with her mother and her mother's partner. Maia shared this poem with me. Out of the mouths of babes......wisdom.

Last Minute Poem for Chernobyl

Death,
A battle for nothingness.
Never won and never lost.
So many causes -
disease,
dying nuclear power plants,
big factories, hate, war.
And yet, disease is the only one majorly fought.
Why?

To those fighting other causes,
I say, “Keep going!”
Thumbs up!

- Maia Fialco, age 8
This poem was written for the 20th anniversary of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

Son at Seventeen

My good friend, Francette Cerulli, will have one of her poems read tomorrow morning, Tuesday, March 27, 2007, by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio's Writer's Edition. The poem is called, Son at Seventeen, and is in her book, The Spirits Need to Eat. You may know Fran - she used to work at Bear Pond Books, she writes an occasional column for the Times Argus, she is a reading and discussion leader for the Vermont Humanities Council and she's fun to be with. Tune into NPR (107.9 fm) at 8:35am to hear Fran's poem. The Kellogg-Hubbard Library has a copy of her book, The Spirits Need to Eat. Check it out!