Flying School - Saxton, Robert
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Flying School is a book of beautifully crafted poems about the contrivances by which we attempt to enrich or repair our lives. One dominant image is flight and, more specifically, parachutes - reflecting an aspiration to come to terms with our hardest challenges, including the reality of death. The book ends with a series of heartbreaking elegies for the poet's father, unflinching in their grief-stricken gaze. Poems about Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer musing on their art and subversive pastorals on our loss of biodiversity extend Saxton's focus into new areas. ere are dramatic monologues too -…mehr

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Flying School is a book of beautifully crafted poems about the contrivances by which we attempt to enrich or repair our lives. One dominant image is flight and, more specifically, parachutes - reflecting an aspiration to come to terms with our hardest challenges, including the reality of death. The book ends with a series of heartbreaking elegies for the poet's father, unflinching in their grief-stricken gaze. Poems about Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer musing on their art and subversive pastorals on our loss of biodiversity extend Saxton's focus into new areas. ere are dramatic monologues too - a returning cosmonaut disappointed not to be more generously treated; a Polynesian ambassador in Venice in the time of Casanova; a young man who falls for a girl in the American 'Neverglades' and serves with her brother in Viet Nam. Themes include love savoured, compromised or lost; identity, being and nothingness; and faith versus unbelief. In this dazzlingly various collection, plain-spoken storytelling is set against more oblique or lyrical voices, while sonnets, sestinas, villanelles and 'triplets' (juxtaposing conventional and consonantal rhyme) offer the pleasures of accomplished form. The common factor is a vividly observed aliveness, often inflected with wit. Saxton has conjured a teeming world of phenomena, ideas and emotions that never fails to surprise, as well as entertain or move.
Autorenporträt
Robert is an educator, writer, EMT/first responder, storyteller, coach, actor, community volunteer, and stay-at-home father. He has picked tomatoes in Mexico, danced flamenco in Seville, and played rugby in southern France. He speaks fluent French and Spanish and is conversant in a few other languages, including Ojibwe. He has fallen in love with every culture he has ever known and has taught Native and non-Native youth everything from foreign languages to wilderness survival skills, native plant harvesting, and self-defense. He enjoys family and friends, travel, tracking, hunting, and practicing primitive skills. Robert lives in the North Woods of Minnesota with a dozen chickens, two big dogs, and one small wife. Their three children are out in the world making it a much better place.