John Gorman
Publications
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Back cover
Contents
The World and the Sound of Words
Resumé
My Grandfather’s House and the Sea
Cerebral Boy
Cement
The Homeboy in Spite of Himself
Found Money
A Change of Season -
Cut Glass
Indian Creek
An Abundance of Pumpkins
Scooped Dirt
Imagining the West
Red Pontiac Convertible
The Extra-
Red Pontiac Convertible
JOHN GORMAN
At the heart of the basket of snares lie a few hidden joys. And that is what John Gorman describes in this enthralling book: the joys that come from finding the answers to very human questions. Why do we believe it all over again, he asks? We believe because he tells us we can, because there is such delight to be found in experience. What an enriching read! ~Alan Birkelbach, 2005 Texas State Poet Laureate
What first comes to my mind when I think of John Gorman as a poet is the consistent excellence of his poetic craftsmanship. His skills are extraordinary, in diction, originality of image, and musical resonance. ~Larry D. Thomas, Member, Texas Institute of Letters, 2008 Texas State Poet Laureate
John Gorman’s Red Pontiac Convertible brings the reader back sublimely through childhood days, those many faceted emotional episodes of passage wafting up, as in his radiant poem, “Cement”: “You lie on it/and all the heat of lives/ you’ve lived so far carries your body/back to just before baths/just before your father’s two-
In this impressive collection, John Gorman steps into the Whitmanesque tradition of singing a Song of Self. The reader will revel in the multi-