MAVOR's BONES by Rolli

$15.88

"I have been dreaming / those dreams of meaning / that come from the waters / of dreaming deep / like drowned men / to the gold skin / of the ocean"

Company's come. In a ramshackle mansion, meet a family in the same condition—ancient, decayed. There's the brooding Duke, and his riotous brother. There's Grandam, lost in wilds of herself. There's a vicar, a philosopher, an angel, a ghost or two. And somewhere above them all, in a ruined garret…

5 x 8 | 121 pages | Illustrated | ISBN 978-1-926716-30-5 (pbk.) | Softcover

Quantity

MAVOR's BONES by Rolli (Charles Anderson)
5 x 8 | 121 pages | Illustrated | ISBN 978-1-926716-30-5 (pbk.) | Softcover

Charles Anderson (Rolli) does it again. In another clever, witty and touching collection, Rolli rollicks again through gardens and cemeteries peopled with dreams, goddesses, characters dead and alive, dukes stricken within gout, gracious skeletons and morose angels.

I have been dreaming

those dreams of meaning

that come from the waters

of dreaming deep

like drowned men

to the gold skin

of the ocean

Company's come. In a ramshackle mansion, meet a family in the same condition—ancient, decayed. There's the brooding Duke, and his riotous brother. There's Grandam, lost in wilds of herself. There's a vicar, a philosopher, an angel, a ghost or two. And somewhere above them all, in a ruined garret…

“By turns delightfully black, singingly lyrical and/or innocently nonsensical. Here is a poet outside the mainstream with his own refreshingly original voice and bone[s] to pick.”

– Gillian Harding-Russell, author of I Forgot to Tell You

978-1-926716-30-5-Softcover

Specific References