It's Hard Enough to Fly

by Donald Wheelock

Wheelock's introductory metaphor describes a poet's challenge: To launch with billowing sails / a course aimed true, in sight, / well-rhymed, concise, entails / lines hauled in tight. Wheelock packages his views about the world in literal terms-"the froth of distant ocean surf / exploding against the dory-sides" or fog ("a second sea"); "the hawk knows hunger: it is himself "; the hummingbird is a "jeweled artifact." A boot jack or a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163980157X
• ISBN13: 9781639801572
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Kelsay Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"