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The Colors of Infinity
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by Donald Everett Axinn
Sales Rank: 2425735
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Paperback: 51 pages
Publisher: Blue Moon Books, Inc. November 21, 1990
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0929654927
ISBN-13: 978-0929654928
Product Dimensions:
8 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Axinn ( Against Gravity ) addresses many of the same themes that have occupied his previous collections--love, death, the physical and metaphysical aspects of the universe--with a wide-eyed, appreciative simplicity that welcomes us into each poem. Once inside the poet's world, however, the reader will likely be disappointed by his unremarkable insights. "The Orphan" contemplates the emotional precariousness of a child's world: "Love can abandon, / the pain and destruction / tearing, cataclysmic." The poems about nature have a cliched, greeting-card quality to them. In "Encounter with an Old Friend," the poet enjoys a brief meeting with a chipmunk: "I would have offered him eternal friendship / And the place of honor in my heart and home." On the other hand, two poems about the poet's dead father are particularly resonant reflections on the loss of a cherished guiding influence. Axinn, himself a pilot, deals in several poems both with the worldly pleasures of plane flight and the supernatural implications of traveling through air: "We do hang / onto some wave to the outer edge / of the Big Bang / perhaps we will learn more about / God."
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