The Receipt
In The Receipt, poetry blends with history and its lessons in a tribute to the human spirit. Reeves’s poems are a receipt for life lived through the ages. Whether pre-cataclysmic Pompeii, Michelangelo on horseback to Bologna, or a plague doctor’s first encounter with Angel Island, Reeves’s fine eye, ear, and imagination find the imagery, metaphors, and language to create rhythms of history.
by Trish Reeves • 82 pages
In The Receipt, poetry blends with history and its lessons in a tribute to the human spirit. Reeves’s poems are a receipt for life lived through the ages. Whether pre-cataclysmic Pompeii, Michelangelo on horseback to Bologna, or a plague doctor’s first encounter with Angel Island, Reeves’s fine eye, ear, and imagination find the imagery, metaphors, and language to create rhythms of history.
by Trish Reeves • 82 pages
In The Receipt, poetry blends with history and its lessons in a tribute to the human spirit. Reeves’s poems are a receipt for life lived through the ages. Whether pre-cataclysmic Pompeii, Michelangelo on horseback to Bologna, or a plague doctor’s first encounter with Angel Island, Reeves’s fine eye, ear, and imagination find the imagery, metaphors, and language to create rhythms of history.
by Trish Reeves • 82 pages
“To open the pages of Reeves’s ‘The Receipt’ is to open the ancient mouth of the carnyx and loose the splendid roar of poetry above the crowds. These are poems of love, place, and history—musical, painterly, and photographic. But unlike the roar of the carnyx, meant to incite the masses to war, Reeves’s poems incite us to live emphatically.”