BookRix

This is a book of intensity. I wish everyone would write a book at 17 and then write another at 25 and see the difference in the two intensities.

Some people will be upset by the vantage in the poems because it is straight forward, male, young; and those of us who have children will wince a bit and say, "Oh lord, I came so close to getting out of control at 17 and getting into trouble--can this writer dodge that bullet?"

Emotions uncontrolled can be deadly enemies or great poetry and between them is jail and bullets. Emotions get nine out of 10 young men these days, will this young man make it?

Will he rule his words or be caught up in the intensity of his age?

Will be catch that writing bug and write for movies or for songs... or is this poem just a flash?

To anyone with a 17 year old son, don't flinch when you read the intensity of this book. Read. See. Learn.

With writers of a certain intensity it's like watching a man on a highwire. You are watching for both the thrill that he can walk that wire. But, you also watch for that ever-present fear that the rope will win.

In poetic terms, this is not a whisper--this is that plate that falls on the floor made all of expensive porcelain.

You watch the spin with the fear of that plate hitting that crash... Hoping for that landing of that "well, well, well" sound that plates make...when they DON'T crash.