What To Do If You're Buried Alive, by Michael Meyerhofer
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In his latest collection of poems, What To Do If You're Buried Alive, Michael Meyerhofer's narrative verse is tight and full of torque: storytelling in the vein of Richard Hugo, humor in the likes of Ron Padgett, absurdity a little like Stephen Dobyns and surrealism much like the dearly missed Tomaz Salamun. And this collection is huge! 130+ pages of the type of poems you can recite to a buddy at a bar without your buddy having any clue that you are speaking a poem aloud. This is the type of book for short story fans who want to explore the world of poetry while bypassing confusion, trickery, the diction of Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus and other poetic pollutants that interfere with one's reading pleasure. If you're seeking poetry you can feel you are a part of, know where you're at in, and have a friend in the narrator, then this is the book for you! As poet George Bilgere puts it: "Meyerhofer sings in a pure American tenor, his voice haunted by late night diners, small town heartbreak, and somehow, out there in the desolate vastness of the heartland, a flash of humor and a sweet glimmer of hope."
What To Do If You're Buried Alive, by Michael Meyerhofer- Amazon Sales Rank: #111720 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .33" w x 6.00" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 132 pages
Review "...Meyerhofer not only ventures into the realm of memory to capture those times that teach us that surviving can turn into hope, he also finds poetic moments in everyday life." -Karen Weyant, author of Stealing Dust"Michael Meyerhofer's What To Do If You're Buried Alive is the work of a seasoned pro. These poems are solid like that friend who would cut off their own hand before they let you down. Meyerhofer would be typing with one hand before he'd leave a reader stranded on the page." -Michael Dennis, author of The Uncertainty of Everything
From the Back Cover "With a compassionate eye, and his trademark sense of humor that hooks readers from the very first page, Meyerhofer sends us back to our earliest memories, and shows us a world of heartbreak and wonder." -Mary Biddinger, author of A Sunny Place with Adequate Water"...Meyerhofer sings in a pure American tenor, his voice haunted by late night diners, small town heartbreak, and somehow, out there in the desolate vastness of the heartland, a flash of humor and a sweet glimmer of hope." -George Bilgere, author of Imperial"While never flinching from confronting the irredeemable damage we do to one another, these urgent and necessary poems remind us 'that if we focus on what hurts, / face it wholly, it dissolves / like a light from a burnt-out bulb, / a curtain gone up in flames." -Jon Tribble, author of Natural State
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Knock-You-in-the-Teeth Poetry By Norman Minnick If you are interested in the poets who turn heads at the AWP meat market or who teach at the Beefloaf and MacDonald's writers' conferences for the MFA disabled, then this is not the book for you. This is actually good poetry; not prose that has been hacked into lines to look like poetry, like so much that is being piled upon us today. This is knock-you-in-the-teeth poetry that those major publishers would be afraid to touch because it cuts through the vanity bulls*** and popularity contest material we're being told is good writing. Plus, Michael Meyerhofer doesn't have a schtick. Just damn good poems. Open this book to any page and you will laugh out loud or feel a twinge of perturbation. Open it again and you will be pulled deeper into the muck and gunk of real life and feel the "primordial / rush of ocean" and learn a thing or two, such as, well, what to do if you're buried alive.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Poetry for real people By Nina Bennett In an interview published in Pine Hills Review, Michael Meyerhofer states: “I tend to be pretty obsessed with the human condition, I guess, but I also like to keep a sense of humor about the things that irritate me.” (http://pinehillsreview.strose.edu/michaelmeyerhoferqa/#sthash.AvjGWCSW.dpuf)His newest collection reflects that obsession, as well as his humor. Meyerhofer scrutinizes the human condition, and attempts to find a universal context for the situations he explores. The first section of the book is titled “Scars,” and the poems reflect emotional as well as physical scars. His writing is acerbic and irreverent, readily understood, a welcome relief from the tedium of much current poetry. Many of the poems in this section revolve around childhood scenes and memories. It was like coming home then realizing you’ve been locked out. Those beanpole girls we’d tackled in back yards, now blooming beneath their checkered uniforms until our palms dampened each Square Dance, fretting whenever one asked to borrow a #2 pencil, the room so quiet we could hear oursternums jumping over the slide of perforated test forms, (Twelve)Meyerhofer’s associations are wildly imaginative. “Sex Education in the Summer of My Ninth Year”begins with a seemingly ordinary experience: I learned female anatomy from a sex toy catalog in my brother’s roomfollowed by 7 couplets describing what the speaker saw, and ends with this surprise turn: Imagine Hubble right after he looked through that gigantic telescope leaning dumbly phallic off a California cliff, that night his universe grew exponentially. Doesn’t everything lead to this? Too much to take in, too hard to look away.Using couplets imbues this poem with even more metaphorical meaning.Meyerhofer intersperses vignettes of Midwest farms and factories with poems aching with loss. The first section closes with a perfect double entendre, “Quitting Time.” All over the factory floor, machines stop at once. Thermoses capped, radios unplugged, everyone with someplace better to be. Like the boy who is still twelve years away from writing this poemThe second section, “Tattoos,” carries the tattoo theme throughout, literally and figuratively. These poems tend to be more in the present, or looking ahead, than those in the first section.This is Muncie-home to a closed jar factory, tattooed libertarians, and a university of failed writers trying to inspire the next crop of millennial farm boys moonlighting as slam poets on weekends. (The Indiana Blues)One of my favorite poems comes close to the end of the book. “When The World Will End” consists of four quintains, the first two telling the reader when it will not happen, the last two informing us when it will. It will not happen in winter, it will not happen after some hard-won breakthrough with your therapist, your parents, your publisher. Nor will it end when the moon cocks its eyebrows and cherry blossoms carpet-bomb D.C. No, it will happen during your colonoscopy. It will happen while you’re waiting in line for a roller coaster, for the restrooms at Wrigley Field. It will happen just as you catch yourself eyeing someone way too young, too old, too blood-related.Meyerhofer is definitely a people’s poet, capturing everyday sights and events with well-considered metaphors and word choices.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Stories of Struggles, Hope, and Survival By Karen J Weyant Michael Meyerhofer's newest collection of poetry, What To Do If You're Buried Alive explores the way that the past shapes who we become. Constructing poems from both personal narratives and lyrical observations, Meyerhofer not only ventures into the realm of memory to capture those times that teach us that surviving can turn into hope, he also finds poetic moments in everyday life.Many of the poems explore the poet's struggle with the pain of physical health and the loss of a mother at a young age, yet revolving around these personal works, are poems that look at the way others are also finding hope in their stories. In these poems, we listen to Iowa wrestlers who are trying to "knuckle their way out" of their current surroundings. We see elderly women, "whose eyes go damp/for no reason" sitting in the audience of a poetry reading. We hear two children in first grade talk on the phone, just enough to say "hi and bye" but learning what the adults have forgotten, that it's enough "to hear breath/which those big textbooks tell us/help fuel our blood, the only real thing/that ever comes from the heart."I have been a fan of Meyerhofer's work of a long time. What To Do If You're Buried Alive is a great addition to his works!
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