| |
| Good True Stories by Eric Torgersen |
|
Poetry
ISBN: 0-89924-029-1
Paper: $10.00 |
|
From Good True Stories:
MY BLINDNESS
Once I woke up in the dark and thought I was blind. There was no light at all. There's always some light.
Blind, I was calm in that perfect dark. Friends would come, and I'd tell them what they had to do. It would be all right.
I'd go back home, but dignified, and I'd know my way perfectly in the house, even on the streets. I'd only been gone a few years.
I'd have them read me strange books, and they'd love my strangeness, thinking This is what it was, we knew there was something. They'd loved it a little already.
There at home in my great dark I'd find a single purpose, and begin.
But you know this: the light came.
Don't laugh at me. I live with so little blindness. Such a long way I've come; so little blindness.
|
| |
| Eric Torgersen has a BA in German Literature from Cornell University (1964) and an MFA in poetry from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa (1969). He served in the US Peace Corps in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1964-1966. He taught for two years at Quincy College, Quincy, Illinois, before coming in 1970 to Central Michigan University, where he is Professor of English. He has published five books of poetry: The Carpenter, Salt Mound Press, 1969; At War With Friends, Ithaca House, 1972; The Door to the Moon, March Street Press, 1993; Good True Stories, Lynx House Press, 1994; and Inside Unity House: The John-Paul Story, March Street Press, 1999. Hanging Loose Press published his novella Ethiopia in 1977, and Northwestern University Press published Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker in 1998. His essays about poetry, visual art and other subjects have appeared in American Poetry Review, Field, Hudson Review, Gettysburg Review and many other journals. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
....... |
| |
| |
| << Back to Lynx House Backlist |
| << Back to EWU Press Home |
| |
|
|
|
