Michael P. Amram

Poems from Captain Salty's (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Poems from Captain Saltys uses metaphors, rhyme schemes, and word-play to mask a deeper meaning. A few are overt, and comment on issues the world needs to or has made great strides to amend. Allegories, parodies, and miscalculated tapestries imbue Saltys pages with realism. Its poems are rarely fantastical and tend to comment on legends or crumbles from the mythical properties of history. My narrative poetry comes to light in this book. I frequently depart from the metrical and lyrical sound boards that were cells to me so long. It is truly a departure for me. There are both obvious and subtle double entendres. The poems are bold and stir the pots of diversity; they call kettles black and skim lines of perversityjust enough to simmer. They stew issues as varied as racism and womens strides toward equality. Saltys poems ponder isolation and disparity, how society has come together and how it has just as easily grown apart. His poems often confess how individuals meet briefly to compare notes from the heart. Life slowed things down for me in 2012. I like to say I retired from America. I quite gratefully left the game much of America plays where the dollar waits patiently at the end of every bank of cubicles, where CEOs get fat watching cogs oil their chairs so they swivel. I retired from one of the many incarnations of the American dream. I decided to follow my dream, the one that begins to realize itself when that dollar is replaced with a FOR RENT sign at the end of cubicles. At mid-way in life, money is not everything. In fact, it was never really anything to me except a means to a tenuous life of the odd extravagance. Peace of mind, enjoying life, and living far, far off anyones time continuum can last at least thirty years. Now, in 2015, that pendulous life I fed for years is remembered more as a nightmare. I savor life, I favor it and see it for what it is or was. Captain Salty is a metaphor. Hes a sailor, a fisherman, a salt of the earth. He is a repentant pirate, a retired buccaneer watching sea squalls and albatrosses beneath a beard. To him lifes a puzzle, and his has been lived piecemeal. Hes seen America at its best, its worst, and the odd peace between the two states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trafford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 94
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781490762630
• Artikelnr.: 52047697

Autorenporträt

Author Michael P Amram acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 1989. Since graduating, he has been writing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. In 1998, Amram saw his first publication with a short story entitled The Den of Antiquities. In 2003, he sold an excerpt from a short story to accompany an article featured in the Canadian magazine Abilities. A portion of the manuscript for his first novel, The Orthodoxy of Arrogance (Trafford 2013), was submitted for the 2011-12 mentor program run by the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work was selected from seventy-eight other fiction writers to be a finalist. Between October 2013 to June 2014, he published two novels and two poetry collections. He is currently working on a memoir titled Growing up DFL: A Memoir Minnesota Politics during the Vietnam War. He and his wife live in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Much of his published and unpublished work can be found at www.michaelpaulamram.weebly.com.