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That Special Something

By John Popielaski

That Special Something Poetry

That Special Something

By John Popielaski

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That Special Something is about ideals and compromises, aspirations, good-faith efforts, and the specter of futility. There's ample grief, but, with apologies to Robert Frost, there's also ample grievance, for it is in grievance that the gods allow more latitude for humor. What sort of humor? If you took a Vanitas/Memento Mori painter, converted such into a poet, made it so that the perspective shifted to include more flora and more animals, more waterways and beer, more cracked corn and more longing for the father, more references to weaponry and xenia, more fretting since, collectively, we're so much closer to the end, you'd have the sort of gallows humor that prevails here. Yet there's poignancy. There's beauty. There is joy. It's like the death's head on the cover, a reminder of the obvious, of the impending simplification. In the meantime, we are free to take a smoke, to be surrounded by as many flowers as we can, to grin as though we really don't have anything to lose.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
118
Release Date:
2025-06-30
Publication Date:
2025-06-30
Publisher:
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1962405214
ISBN13:
9781962405218
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
160 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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