Description:
Roy Beckemeyer celebrates the world in exuberant, expansive poetry, rich with evocative language. Read these poems aloud. Let them resonate in your vocal cords as they unfold on the page. A celebration of life and growth at all stages.
Review Quotes:
"Explores the great Whitmanesque themes of the body, the self, the teeming earth, the wide-open horizon." Arlis Davenport (poet and book page editor of the Wichita Eagle, retired)
"Whether he's analyzing the geometry of the Trinity or pouring Whitman into a sonnet, Beckemeyer blends gravity with wit in this elegiac tribute to the permanence of love." Wyatt Townley (Kansas Poet Laureate, Emerita)
"Roy Beckemeyer's poems amplify the music of being alive and illuminate the dance of being human." Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (Kansas Poet Laureate, Emerita)