Book of the Week – The Fat Lady Sings by Michael Bangerter
According to Patricia Prime: “Bangerter projects, in his poetry, a free, un-self-conscious imagination. His haiku are vital, fast, celebratory. The reader feels that they are in the presence of an original voice. His poems and haiku give you a delicious, if brief, feeling of being intensely alive … [His} fluent, supple, musical and never contrived poems are a pleasure to read. It is clear that what he has accomplished in The Fat Lady Sings is not merely to put together a collage of poems and haiku or even a mosaic in words, but to compose a kind of mini exposition of ‘moments in time’ that add up to a lived life.”
The Fat Lady Sings was published by Hub Editions in 2006.
Following are a few selected poems from the book:
beating sun
blue sky, and yet
I shiver—
saying our goodbyes
we ignore
what is behind her smile—
2 am –
listening to my heart
going on and on and—
today I do little
but think about the past,
watch the crows circling—
a room full of old clocks
all that time and
never in unison
You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library and please share your favorite poem from the book with us.
Do you have a chapbook published in 2018 or earlier that you would like featured as a Book of the Week? Contact us for details. Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by the THF Digital Librarian Kenneth Pearson and are used with permission.
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Some good ones here: thank you, Kenneth. I enjoyed:
His curriculum vitae
glossing over
a life
stained and leaded saints
illuminate
the empty pews
glimpsed between
bungalows and clipped hedges
the ocean