The Grass is Never Greener
J.P.Gorham
Here is a poetry of movement and fun. Here is a poetry that delights in the cadences of rhythm, as conscious and as continuous as the sound of horses hooves on hard-packed prairie. Here is a poetry that not only admits rhyme but embraces it, frequently crafting stanza after stanza of variations on traditional fourteeners. Recreating something of the tone and manner of an ancient folk-ballad stanza, Gorham's Cowboy stanzas fairly invite his strong narrative sense and his overriding sense of life and energy. Here the emphasis lies clearly on music and movement, on rhythm and rhyme, often as rocking and as rollicking as possible. These are words and lines and stanzas that demand a drawl, that insist upon a world view that takes no account of time or season, youth or age, but remains clear and endures. It is a heart-felt collection, and one that readers should easily respond to.
Dr.
Michael Collings
Director; Creative Writing Dept., Pepperdine
University Past Poet-In-Residence; Seaver
College