Bøker av Marcus Whalbring

In How to Draw Fire Marcus Whalbring includes four sections that move from childhood, to reflections of estrangement, to love and parenthood, and ends in a place of healing and affirmation. This collection appeals to lovers of different schools of poetry. Those who admire the confessional mode will be attracted to the vulnerability in poems that explore the sense of anxiety and loss as the poet explores the strained relationships with family members and writes of the dynamics of love and marriage and parenthood. Those who love surrealism and magical realism, will enjoy poems of whimsy that include a strange trip into an entire existence within a box and a poem about highlighter brought to a cemetery. In Marcus Whalbring's second collection of poems, he attempts to find common humanity and vulnerability by finding the threads that stitch together the memory and the dream, the world of childhood and the world of adulthood, the momentous and the everyday.

There is a talent to describing the natural world that resists mere wonder for the sake of what used to be called the sublime, in which the mind willingly puts out its own light in the glow of more profound illumination. Marcus Whalbring has such talent. He also has a voice so human and sensible we think this sort of going into the world should be for all of us. These poems are spun from thought; they take that thought not to where it ends, but to where it rightly disappears. There the poet's intelligence-arranged in patterns of language and rhythm-meets a different intelligence, that of a particular landscape, arranged in its patterns of season, weather, morning and night, according to its ineffable being. ~Maurice Manning