Publisher's Synopsis
Billy Collins has written of Chris Dingman's poetry, "You definitely have something going here: the quick take, unexpected turn-arounds, lots of playfulness... delightful in many instances."
Like the poetry of Collins, as well as that of Robert Frost, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Bob Dylan, Dingman's is both literary and accessible. As reviewers have attested, Dingman's poems are also "soulful and wistful and whimsical at the same time," with "more than a bit of cheeky humor thrown in." These are poems that "really see the world," but will also "give you ideas you didn't have before." Funny and tender. Surprising and resonant. The wondrous in the everyday. "A sparrow's feet on palm fronds." Selections from The Morning I Married the Sky: go niners or somethingif I had a football team
their colors would be
oak-leaf green against
the gold of dry summer
California grass
about an hour
before sunset and
practice would be
canceled constantly you don't build up
you don't build up
good works and drag
them in a bag
up to heaven and then
unpack them
before the almighty
for his approval god is whistling, will
you sing along? To read Dingman's poems is to cancel practice, to sing along with god, to marry the sky. For more from and about Chris Dingman, who now writes under the pen name Chris Spark, visit www.Sparkwrites.com
