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DRAWING ON LIFE
Poems by Mason Drukman
Art by Lisa Esherick
Mason Drukman’s collection—augmented by the artistry of Lisa Esherick—offers a fresh poetic voice that speaks with intelligence, clarity, humor and heart. His subject matter is life itself: culture, politics, family, death, grief, love and the Red Sox.
Welcome to his special kind of poetry.
Praise for Drawing on Life
“Mason Drukman's poems lodge in the space between happiness and impending chaos or catastrophe, marking with exquisite care what he calls "signposts on the pathway to failure." But there's nothing grim or lugubrious about these efforts. We see large-hearted, sometimes ironic, sometimes tender treatments of even loss and bereavement: a family dog who runs away, escaping some underspecified "detonation" in the house, is his serio-comic emblem for deprivation, betrayal, and diminishment. Drukman is a master of verbal dexterity in pointing up the world's gaucheries. His reflections often turn back to an earlier era--childhood, America in the fifties and sixties—but his poetry is always grounded in the present. I'm a fan of his wonderful memory poems: they are redemptive even as they produce a stab in the heart, all over again.”
— Roger J. Porter, author of Bureau of Missing Persons (Cornell), and with Sandra Gilbert, co-editor of the forthcoming Eating Words (Norton).