Book details

  • Genre:poetry
  • Sub-genre:Subjects & Themes / General
  • Language:English
  • Series Title:Poetry for Everyone
  • Series Number:1
  • Pages:184
  • eBook ISBN:9798317850425
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317850418

Poetry for Everyone

Volume I: Morning Thoughts

By Tom Harriman

Overview

I avoided writing poetry most of my life. Then, I awoke on Memorial Day, 2017 and wrote the first poem I never trashed. With this poem I suddenly found my voice and style. Over the course of the next three years I wrote 861 poems. All but a handful are intentionally single page. Ironically, against my edict to keep my poems one page or less, while in  pandemic isolation in Vermont I wrote an epic lyric poem entitled: A Simple Life: A Farmer's Ode to the Year of Fear.

I have made that the title poem for Volume II.

Volume III is Poetry Inspired by the Outdoors.

I never expected to be a Poet. Now, I cannot imagine being anything else.

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Description

The poetry in this volume is a compilation of the first 8 volumes I wrote. I have underlined the title. poem in each volume. As with most poems, I rarely altered the placement of the poems. I woke, wrote something and went onto the next day. Everything just happened. As I got to the 91st. poem I stopped the volume, gave myself time off, then returned to the next volume. 

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About The Author

A Poet who spends his time between Brooklyn, N.Y. and Putney, Vermont. Each place is inspiring and fulfilling.

If anyone wants to communicate with me, please write to:

Tom Harriman           P.O. Box 468       Putney, Vt. 05346

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Whitmanian Snapshots "For my words are meant to be whispered in dimly lit coffeehouses. To be screamed from city rooftops. To be sung in the night air of deserts..." This collection is special. To me, it sounds like Written Street Photography, if that genre existed. The observations are evocative and precise. And I can say that with some authority, because I sometimes had the joy to be right there to see what Tom was seeing the instant he wrote the lines in this book, his Street Photography for the ear, sometimes with a Ginsbergian holler that suddenly might turn into a Whitmanian whisper, but always, always steeped in experience, like this one about my home town Berlin, littered with "Stolpersteine" (Stumbling Stones) that tell the stories of crimes past to passers-by: "We walked down avenues seen in history books, as a pre-storm light intoxicated our eyes with a wash of subdued colors. We crossed boulevards and timelines, wandering on cobblestones that gave up their stories but not their secrets." Read more