LIVING POETRY by Murray Mednick
“Murray Mednick’s Living Poetry is both a startling debut and a culminating distillation of a life that could not have yielded anything other than these dauntingly memorable poems. All of the greatest dramatists wrote their plays either as verse or prose poetry, but Mednick’s poems stand apart from his extraordinary plays as a summit few others have attained. A sternly exultant, street-level ferocity encapsulates his poems within a clairvoyant wisdom that is second to none. “The owl of Minerva flies at dusk.” Any readers who find themselves caught in the throes of regret or wistfulness will find their longed-for succor in the visionary candor of Mednick’s indomitable poems.”
–Bill Mohr, Editor, Poet, Headwaters of Nirvana
“Murray Mednick’s Living Poetry is both a startling debut and a culminating distillation of a life that could not have yielded anything other than these dauntingly memorable poems. All of the greatest dramatists wrote their plays either as verse or prose poetry, but Mednick’s poems stand apart from his extraordinary plays as a summit few others have attained. A sternly exultant, street-level ferocity encapsulates his poems within a clairvoyant wisdom that is second to none. “The owl of Minerva flies at dusk.” Any readers who find themselves caught in the throes of regret or wistfulness will find their longed-for succor in the visionary candor of Mednick’s indomitable poems.”
–Bill Mohr, Editor, Poet, Headwaters of Nirvana
“Murray Mednick’s Living Poetry is both a startling debut and a culminating distillation of a life that could not have yielded anything other than these dauntingly memorable poems. All of the greatest dramatists wrote their plays either as verse or prose poetry, but Mednick’s poems stand apart from his extraordinary plays as a summit few others have attained. A sternly exultant, street-level ferocity encapsulates his poems within a clairvoyant wisdom that is second to none. “The owl of Minerva flies at dusk.” Any readers who find themselves caught in the throes of regret or wistfulness will find their longed-for succor in the visionary candor of Mednick’s indomitable poems.”
–Bill Mohr, Editor, Poet, Headwaters of Nirvana