Böcker av David Clewell

The first winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, this collection reminds readers that poems can be as tangible, as substantial, as redemptive as those things the poet will not let go unspoken in the world. The author's compassionate witness is born out of immersion in bittersweet particulars.

These poems often spring from unlikely sources. In Almost Nothing to Be Scared Of, David Clewell's most expansive work yet, readers will discover a multiplicity of new ways to take heart - surely no small thing in a world where we're too often asked to take what we'd rather not.

David Clewell's spirited poems cut through the noise we too often accommodate in our daily lives. Clewell traffics in unlikely and compelling details of our mostly discernible world: a school custodian's role in the burgeoning Space Race; the vastness of abandoned missile silos; the first lawn flamingos; the living fossil still using a typewriter.

This collection of poems covers such diverse topics as forgotten Hollywood actors, flying saucers, CIA shenanigans, comic books, cereal flavours, beatnik kitsch and jazz.