A Pocketful of Poems - Pugh, Craig
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Craig Pugh's poetry ranges from the silly to the sublime, the cosmic to the comedic, and the tragic to the absurd. His work and images never get too far away from readers because he deals with things we all see every day. This makes him accessible and comfortable to read since he doesn't deal in abstractions. So we see poems about coffee, cats and love "in all its messy glory," as the author likes to say. Incredibly, twenty-five of his poems are about poems and poets. He does adhere to rhyme and structure, but works new ground by incorporating contemporary images and situations into his poems.…mehr

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Craig Pugh's poetry ranges from the silly to the sublime, the cosmic to the comedic, and the tragic to the absurd. His work and images never get too far away from readers because he deals with things we all see every day. This makes him accessible and comfortable to read since he doesn't deal in abstractions. So we see poems about coffee, cats and love "in all its messy glory," as the author likes to say. Incredibly, twenty-five of his poems are about poems and poets. He does adhere to rhyme and structure, but works new ground by incorporating contemporary images and situations into his poems. Mirth and intensity are two of his defining characteristics; "Sex Slave" and "A River of Stars" demonstrate this. These are poems about living. The author knows how to laugh, and he knows how to cry. He ranges so far and wide that readers of all ages will find something to chuckle at, wonder about, or just plain shake their heads at.
Autorenporträt
Craig Pugh has been writing, editing, or teaching writing since 1975 when he was assigned as editor of the Goodfellow Air Force Base newspaper in San Angelo, Texas. He next was a staff writer on Airman Magazine, the official magazine of the U. S. Air Force, and followed that with a stint as editor of the Air Combat Command News Service at Langley AFB, Virginia. While in the Air Force, Pugh was named the top feature writer in the U. S. Government (1981 National Association of Government Communicators annual "Blue Pencil" award). Leaving government work in 1987, he was the city hall reporter for the Longview (Texas) News-Journal, and then an English and writing instructor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha as well as Metropolitan Community College for twenty years.He wrote and published Ganja Tales in 2000. The volume comprises the only literary marijuana short-story fiction available. He added three more stories for a 20th anniversary second edition in 2020. The book now contains a dozen tall tales from the ganja patch.