Michael Cleary | Hometown, USA

HOMETOWN, USA

Hometown, USA
by Michael Cleary
Publisher:
San Diego Poets Press
(September 1991)
ISBN:
0931289076
Order

Book Cover Design
by
Patricia Barnett

REVIEWS

	FEATURE ARTICLES:
	*Tamara Dietrich, The Post-Star, Glens Falls, NY***
	The long-standing lie is that poetry is effeminate. High schoolers roll their eyes and cough up “yucks” and adamantly don’t get it. Better they should read Michael Cleary, a Glens Fallsian born and bred. In high school Cleary was a jock of such high caliber he once inspired a sports writer to poetry, himself. Today he’s an award-winning writer who dispels the lie that poetry is obscure or all “roses and sunsets.” more...

	Lourdes Rodriguez-Florido, The Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, FL
	Michael Cleary sat in his office at Broward Community College and talked about writing. The English professor had just realized one reason he writes poetry. “I was one of those people in high school not able to sing,” Cleary said. “Poetry is a lot about sound. It’s almost like singing if you put the words together right. Maybe it’s the same type of frustration—I can’t sing, so I’ll write.” *more...*

	Martin Moynihan, Albany Times-Union, Albany, NY
	In 1944, the war was raging and LOOK Magazine wanted to take a close-up look at the home front. They chose Glens Falls for what would be a six-part community profile called “Hometown, USA.” more...

	Linda Ellingsworth, The Chronicle, Glens Falls, NY
	Michael Cleary is an English professor in Florida, but his first book of poems, due out this Fall, is called Hometown, USA. It’s not as surprising as it might sound. Cleary’s collection of poems chronicles the post-war Glens Falls which he experienced growing up here. more...

	Tom Calarco, The Chronicle, Glens Falls, NY
	Grounded in the daily life of Glens Falls, NY, where Michael Cleary was raised, Cleary’s poetic vision of his Hometown, USA is lyrical, unblinking, often mettlesome counterpoint to LOOK Magazine’s more traditionally conceived profile of Glens Falls as an American microcosm in its six-part series “Hometown, USA” in 1944. more...

	Bill Pike, The Corinthian, Corinth, NY, Sports Page
	Oh, what a wonderful flying blue horse— You’ve probably seen him before. Perhaps while we weep, Mick Cleary has sweeped With the ball the length of the floor. more...
	———————————————————————

	REVIEWS:
	*Gayl Teller, Small Press Review***
	Grounded in the daily life of Glens Falls, NY, where Michael Cleary was raised, Cleary’s poetic vision of his Hometown, USA is lyrical, unblinking, often mettlesome counterpoint to LOOK Magazine’s more traditionally conceived profile of Glens Falls as an American microcosm in its six-part series “Hometown, USA” in 1944. *more...*

	*Bruce Thomas Boehrer, Apalachee Quarterly***
	Life in small-town America can turn at any moment into a kind of intellectual seppuku. It does not have to, of course, but there is always the possibility that it will: that the town itself will replace the world in one’s imagination and that the town’s values and rhythms will come to invalidate other sorts of experience. *more...*

	*Brian Daldorph, Coal City Review***
	Michael Cleary grew up in Glens Falls, New York, and now lives in Plantation, Florida, and the poems of Hometown, USA richly evoke Cleary’s experiences of these two places.” *more...*

	Dusty Dog Reviews
	“The word, unutterably, made flesh: fingers flutter, hover, fold, the whisk of Gabriel’s wings.” Plato lieth herein. These poems resemble dialogue in a play or in a disputation. The poems were born on the tongue as the poet ruminated aloud, testing his lines into the air and twisting them like tentacles among the sea of psyche. more...
	———————————————————————

	POEMS:
	Plastic Flamingos
	Catholic Girls
	Aunt Sara on Valentine’s Night
	Fingers, Fists, Gabriel’s Wings
	At Mud Lake in the Morning
	———————————————————————

	READER CORRESPONDENCE:
	Patricia Barnett
	Andy Rooney
	Tom Smith
	———————————————————————

	ORDER:
	Order Hometown, USA
	Printable Order Form
	———————————————————————

	RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO A FRIEND:
	———————————————————————

Web Site Design by
Fireside Design Studio