Description: Time Capsule is Kendall Dunkelberg's second full length collection of poetry. In it he explores themes of love, marriage, and fatherhood against the backdrop of contemporary American life, ranging from his childhood home in Iowa to Mississippi, where he has lived for the past fifteen years. Cross-country travel to Massachusetts, New Mexico, Alabama, and Georgia, as well as a honeymoon in Spain, also informs his vision. These poems traverse myth and memory through cycles of nature and culture, life and death, to arrive at a tranquil, if tenuous, sense of equilibrium.
Brief description:
KENDALL DUNKELBERG is director of creative writing at Mississippi University for Women, where he also directs the Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium and is professor of English. He lives in Columbus, Mississippi.
Review Quotes: "The agrarian values are not as fugitive as we once assumed--a particular hill or road, a particular flower or animal, sometimes just off the interstate, will embody the evanescence of 'unassuming forms of beauty. 'In a flower's 'calm green leaves, ' in a catbird's 'elusive, /alluring' presence, and in scores of manifestations, Kendall Dunkelberg discovers 'a silver /sanctuary where we can rest.' His time capsulates stave off the heartache of urban modernity by acknowledging that its losses are perverse exaggerations of a more elemental loss at the heart of beauty itself. These poems keep low to the ground. These poems are magnificent. They never lose heart."
--Richard Lyons