Poet and friend Andreas Gripp has recently given me a gift of poetry: Perennial: Poems Selected & New Volume 2. I have looked at Andreas's first volume entitled Anathema: Poems Selected & New here. He's the lyricist of our nation, determined to give the oftentimes untold stories of personal tragedies ("Alice, Mother", "September 11th"); the chronicler in the most exquisitely personable language of seasonal wisdoms ("Autumn Green", "Elegy in the eleventh month"); and perhaps among the leading spokespersons for the reinstatement of the poetic voice in contemporary verses ("Verses", "For every poet who knows what it's like"). A voice that's been silenced for far too long in the flarf and conceptualist noise of popular mainstream poetry.
As I've said about significant poetic expression in previous posts, "To be appreciated, whether in analysis or in the act of reading, the poems have to be clearly 'intuited' as unique expressions of a single living voice engaged with a variety of significant life-experiences." It's a comment that bears repeating here in the case of Perennial, a work of lyrical beauty & wisdom.
For more details about the author, as well as online poems and purchase orders, see his official website.
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