It was the title that attracted me to David Livewell’s new poetry collection, Pass and Stow: Poems. It sounded like something related to transportation or hauling freight. It turned out to be people’s last names.
As Livewell explains, John Pass and John Stow worked in the foundry in Philadelphia that recast the Liberty Bell in 1753. The foundry was in the same neighborhood where Livewell grew up in the 1970s. In his words, the two men “serve as reminders about the city’s layered past and what outward and inward repair can achieve.”
In the collection, Livewell applies the idea of layered past and repair to tell a story through poetry. And he is a grand storyteller.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Thursday Readings
10 Things Poets & Writers Can Do in the Small Moments – TS Poetry at The Write to Poetry.
“The Fairies,” poem by William Allingham – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
“A tailor-bird’s song of triumph,” from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.
“Redcar Collector,” a short story by Glenn McGoldrick, is free to download today at Amazon.com.
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