Oneonone: Poems

by Jack Elliott Myers

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096694190X
• ISBN13: 9780966941906
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Autumn House Press
• Length: 79 Pages

Customer Reviews

I love this book!

Jack Myers is able to capture an entire universe in a few lines. He does this through amazing metaphors, simple allegories, and perplexing paradoxes. Read Myers. Then read him again.

In the Spirit of Immediacy

For several years, Jack Myers has striven to create poetry that is at once more accessible to the contemporary reader or listener and complex enough to satisfy the members of what might be termed "The Deep Readers Club of America." Using what might be the voice of the common man, Myers explores often difficult and contradictory themes through the perspective of suburban life. It's all there: The absurdity of looking for meaning in a world already consumed by consumerism, the paradoxical nature of satisfactions gained too easily, the ridiculousness of becoming an adult with either too much time on your hands or too much comfort to bear. OneOnOne, however, differs slightly from his previous "As Long As You're Happy" and "Blindsided" in that Myers is building on the foundations of everyday vocal inflections for which his poetry is both well-known and admired--in a book long visitation with more spiritual aspects of American life. As usual, Myers is not afraid to see humor in his "chicken scratchings for immortality," and, if anything, it is that humorous quality that resides within the core of his vision that provides the most comfort of all.

Zen Comic

Jack Myers has long been one of the best voice poets in America--sort of, as Jonathan Holden pointed out, a poet as stand-up comedian. This very insightful characterization neither undercuts his depth of feeling nor his intellectual range. In this, his latest book, Myers reveals a new area of exploration, one which feels inevitable, one that has been waiting for him all along: Zen Buddhism. This natural growth gives his poems a deeper than ever depth and profundity. Read Myers: his combination of Jewish self-directed humor and, now, zen thought, places him among the best poets writing today.

A Gem of a Book!

Jack Myers is the best poet in America. His poems display a perfect ear for the music of American speech, an astounding imagination, and an authentic mystical experience. OneOnOne is a book about a man's search for sense and beauty in a world of divorce, abandonment, and betrayal. This book changed my life.

Jack Myers' latest book is poetry at its finest.

When a poem is at its finest, it shares the qualities of the best of sacred scripture. It's simple. It's true. The symbols concrete, caught in time and place yet universal. Thus it is with Jack Myers' new book of poetry, OneOnOne, the latest in a long line of distinguished collections.