The Bob Sterry School of Burglary (eBook)

Essays, Poetry and Short Stories

Bob Sterry (Autor)

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2018
120 Seiten
Sterry and Sterry (Verlag)
978-1-7324941-2-1 (ISBN)

Infos

There is never a good time to publish another collection of poetry and essays. But then again, there is never a bad time to publish another collection of poems and essays. And so I feel entirely justified and motivated to add my own work to the mountain of words already bending the shelves of bookstores and libraries around the world.In the spring of 2012 I put together a very short collection or chapbook of poetry titled Wing Nut. So called because instead of any traditional binding the pages were secured by a brass wing nut and bolt in the top left corner. Not elegant, hard to stack, but certainly unique, affordable, and curious enough to cause comment at poetry readings. This new collection of poems, essays and short stories contains a few of the pieces from Wing Nut and a selection of my work since then.I am not capable of explaining exactly why poetry is important. It does not attract a lot of attention in our schools, and announcing that you are choosing to major in Poetry produces anxiety very high on the parental Richter scale. But it seems that poetry has not disappeared and the bookstores and libraries must make room for them.Not quite so eschewed is the art of essay writing. But how many of us have been introduced to someone who calmly lets you know they are an essayist? Not even the famous journalists who write for the New Yorke, Harpers and the Atlantic will easily admit this. The essay. It was indeed one of the horrors of my own education; the fear of being instructed to write “an essay, three pages, single space, subject is dogs and their owners” to be marked out of ten by a cynical worn out chalk dusted English master.I did not exactly choose my education and somehow became a chemist almost by default. I did not even start reading poetry until I was in my forties and actually daring to write any until my fifties. It was not until I larded my cabaret style singing show; another story; with poetry and saw the effect it can have on people that I began to read more of it and write more. Not exactly a power trip but a way of connecting perhaps.The poems and essays in this collection do not have a theme although some are obviously very personal. I hope that they bring something to you or out of you. If you enjoy them I am doubly pleased.Bob SterryAugust 2018

Inhalt

Contents Foreword xAcknowledgements xiiiIntroduction xivPoems and EssaysA Tale of Two Picnics 16The Bob Sterry School of Burglary 18Horizons are Deceptive 21Love and Sunshine 22Pinot 23Sessio Cervisia, Ubi Es? 24Letting In 30Monocular Malevolence 31Tony’s World 32Cricket 47London Road 48We Don’t Eat Scandinavians! 50My Personal Fruit Fly 53Smoke 53Rhubarb 54Peenemunde 56May is National Grilled Cheese and Poetry Month 59Maxwell’s Axe 59Yellow Pole Theater 60Unused Wings 62Le Grande Festival des Grenouilles Cuites 64My Medical Inventory 65Kerosene Kettles 66Ocean Kinetics 67The Moon is Leaving 68That Sucks! 70Singing Terracotta Pot 73Vernal Equinox 74Oregon Spring 75At Solstice 75New Year’s Day 76Hands Up Everyone Who Knows and Loves the Negroni! 78Fraction 81Let’s Demo! 82A Walk 86Yellow Cords 88Going to Cairo 91Basil Wars 92A Little Taste of Tarmac 96A Fine Vocabulary or An Entertaining Fool 98Sibling Trees or The Lonely Ones 100Dunsinane Associates 102Nap Time 106I Got This Body 107Not My Barbecue 108First Kiss 115Freeway Backup 116Biography 119

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.8.2018
• Mitarbeit: Designer: Susan Bard; Produzent: Charlie Clark
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
• Schlagworte: Comedy • Essays • Poetry • Satire • Short Stories • Wit
• ISBN-10: 1-7324941-2-6 / 1732494126
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7324941-2-1 / 9781732494121