These new and selected poems by Robert Riche are a delight - not
just because they welcome and invite the reader inside, but they
reach out with humanity, sometimes with sadness, other times with
rollicking good humor and wit. The collection is varied,
encompassing nature, mortality, the grief of warfare, and the
ordinary events of everyday life. "Robert Riche's poems are a fine
blend of lyricism and accessibility, romance and humor, historical
perspective and a glimpse of the interior life of a 20th, now 21st,
century man and poet. Riche writes about ideas and core truths,
always with a subtle and graceful touch. He confronts politics,
love, mortality, and our foibles and frailties between. What he
doesn't do is fall prey to naval gazing, sentimentality, or trendy
word acrobatics. When you finish reading a Robert Riche poem, you
feel, well, richer for the experience, spoken to and satisfied. You
sense that something important has been revealed. What else could
you want of a poet?" - Connie Everett, Publisher/Editor Pudding
Magazine "Robert Riche's poems gird us against a world largely
devoid of the poetic. His tender, mature, and unrestrained writing
acknowledges the ragged edges of the everyday." - John Smelcer,
Assoc. Publisher and Poetry Editor Rosebud Magazine. "Most of us
see old age as the end of the parade, a finality. Robert Riche's
collection of poems disabuses us of this notion by exploring one's
senior years in an active and completely unique way. The divergence
of children's paths in life, some curmudgeonly observations about
hugging and even the ageing of a favorite pet have their place here
in this wonderful collection of poetry." -- Sharmagne Leland-St.
John, Editor-in-Chief Quill and Parchment, 7 time Pushcart Prize
nominee
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