Nowhere Now Here
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Nowhere Now Here by Charles Springer is a collection of prose poems that read and feel whimsical on the surface, with solid and brilliant imagery, but underneath this surface lay undercurrents of grit and pathos. It's a stand-out collection of ordinary lives and their seemingly ordinary moments made extraordinary.
“There is a way of talking about what is real, exactly as it is, so to make it seem implausible, and this without relying on dreams or surrealism, symbols and myths. It’s a very narrow path and few poets walk it, but Charley Springer is one. The book’s title underscores how unlikely it is, the strangeness of our situation, this having come here from nowhere, out of nothing. In the opening poem, “Day at the Beach,” a truck spills beach balls into the loose nebula of redwing flocks and traffic, and the collection, as arresting as it is free and playful, expands like a miniscule cosmos from there. I loved this book; I admire this poet. His remarkable knack for the prose poem—such a sense for endings, such an ear—is the dark matter that bonds together all of our orbiting, crashing, seemingly separate worlds.”
– David Keplinger, author of The World to Come
“There is a way of talking about what is real, exactly as it is, so to make it seem implausible, and this without relying on dreams or surrealism, symbols and myths. It’s a very narrow path and few poets walk it, but Charley Springer is one. The book’s title underscores how unlikely it is, the strangeness of our situation, this having come here from nowhere, out of nothing. In the opening poem, “Day at the Beach,” a truck spills beach balls into the loose nebula of redwing flocks and traffic, and the collection, as arresting as it is free and playful, expands like a miniscule cosmos from there. I loved this book; I admire this poet. His remarkable knack for the prose poem—such a sense for endings, such an ear—is the dark matter that bonds together all of our orbiting, crashing, seemingly separate worlds.”
– David Keplinger, author of The World to Come