PushBack
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Richard Roses poetry delights with ravishing imagery, skillful metaphors, unexpected juxtapositions, and twists of language. Yet, through the tercets, quatrains, free verse, and various rhyme schemes emerges smoldering resistance to injustices of society, politics, and humankind. The messages are sharpened by the language that brings them. -Betty Mar Little, Supervisor of Language Arts for Loudoun County Public Schools, 1984-2003Thoreau went to the woods, he said, to live deliberately-to learn what the woods had to teach him so that when he came to die, he would not discover that he had never learned. PushBack is Richard Roses trip to the dark woods of our time. He has dwelt in those woods to stare at the ghosts of squandered opportunity that make shadows among the trees. In learning, he invites readers to consider the darkness and the shadows and the faint strands of light that are meaning and hope and the deep integrity of how things are. Open your heart now, he urges, push back against the dark. I sit in the woods with him and learn his learning, again and again, more and more deeply, until I am able to push back. -Carol Ann Tomlinson, William Clay Parrish, Jr. Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia, and author of The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners.Dont be fooled by the ordinary titles in the table of contents of his new collection PushBack. Few poets can hear the downbeats in a sentence and turn them into a whole new world of meaning and understanding. In popular culture Im thinking Seinfeld who made a whole career out of the ordinary and mundane. And in the literary world former poet laureate Billy Collins, who can turn a glass of orange juice into an orchard in the middle of your kitchen. Richard Rose can turn a box of sand into diamond dust! -Nathan M. Richardson; Poet, Author, Frederick Douglass HistorianIn reading Richard Roses Pushback, one can fully partici
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