The night watches

Metras, Gary

Adastra Press

From rape and nuclear bomb testing, to family and mental institutionalization, these poems are hard hitting, loving and celebratory. "Metras' Destiny's Calendar will find its readership in poets with an appreciation for violent imagery: 'Her tongue became a leach / sucking the ice squatting on the pond. / At the time she wished / her mother had taught her / how to grind corn by hand. No harvest / this year.' Non poets will find it an exceptionally diverse collection in which all topics from philosophy, the nature of the universe, and time's passage to everyday living and loving are addressed with degrees of passion and intensity which hold one factor in common: a story-telling mode combined with intense imagery: 'memories sulk in the shadows / and corners as I pass, waiting / for the burning inside of me / to sit in the quiet of the easy chair / and prop my feet up, like in / a magazine ad, the perfect father / once the children are asleep, and it is then that all the yesterdays come / and ride me like a merry-go-round / to new, impossible heights.'

Destiny's Calendar

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Northampton poem

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a long poem of 405 lines in ten numbered parts

Seagull Beach

Adastra Pr

Poetry. CAPTIVE IN THE HERE by Gary Metras presents forty poems that range from personal biography to social commentary in language that is direct, immediate, and accessible. Metras is a keen observer of nature and people, and how they interact, not always beneficially, but always with an open heart. His poems are narrative, descriptive, and imaginative, such as walking to a river to fly fish when he sees a mountain laurel transform into a mythological Greek nymph, or the time he is weeding the flower beds and sudden thunder becomes the wars in the middle east, or as, in the book's major achievement poem, a seven pager flying piece unlike any other, where the reader is drawn into the rhythms and events during a supposedly simple commute. Here, Metras's poetic powers are at full bloom.

Captive in the Here

Cervena Barva Press

VANISHING POINTS, the eighth book of poems by Gary Metras, explores themes of change, alteration, diminishment, even death in society, family, and nature, along with the effects, the struggles, and the joys of love. These poems reinforce and extend what critic and poet Robert Peters wrote of an earlier book: "Metras is an authentic, unpretentious moving voice. These are poems to read aloud, linger over, and share with friends."--Connecticut Poetry Review Poetry.

Vanishing Points

Dos Madres Press

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