Published: Nov. 17, 2011
Words: 7,816 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465978219

Short description

Fourteen Threadless Needles is a poetry collection about a lifetime of relationships, the relationship of a lifetime and the awareness that 'Something there is that doesn't love a happy ending.'

Extended description

Fourteen Threadless Needles is a poetry collection about a lifetime of relationships, the relationship of a lifetime and the awareness that 'Something there is that doesn't love a happy ending.' Poems about love, sharing, laughter, forgetting, second guesses and a poem for you:

A Poem for You
— I want to write a poem for you.
— Um, okay. (Read more) Fourteen Threadless Needles is a poetry collection about a lifetime of relationships, the relationship of a lifetime and the awareness that 'Something there is that doesn't love a happy ending.' Poems about love, sharing, laughter, forgetting, second guesses and a poem for you:

A Poem for You
— I want to write a poem for you.
— Um, okay.

— Can you pose for me, sitting in this chair in the sunlight?
— Why?

— I need to be able to see you clearly—to describe you perfectly.

— Should I take off my clothes?
— You don't have to. It wasn't going to be. . .

— What if I want to?
— If you do, I'll never get to the poem.

— That's okay isn't it?
— Well, I kind of had my heart set on writing a poem.

— Can't you change your mind? Your heart?
— Can I do the poem first?

— Only if it's nonabstractly unambiguous about the state of my undress.

— I don't think I have the right words with me. I left them home by accident.

— Then. Don't. Use. Words.
— It's a poem. It has to have words.

— Not in my book.
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Tags

words, love, relationships, family, love affairs, dreams, poems, couples, youth, sharing, new york, clarity, 1969, alzheimers disease, probability, dylan, touching, hands, december, stray cats, calendar, the future, laughter heals, remembering, forgetting, nights, jack and jill, laundry, flames, affairs of the heart, winning at love, threadless needles, blue sky, tangents, oed, oxford english dictionary, causality dilemma, a city of second guesses, the penance factory, the persistence of laundry, the man who mistook his wife for a poem, watched pot, perfect match, wondering, a tangent and a curve, selfdoubt

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Review by: Fandango Virtual on Dec. 13, 2011 :
I discovered Vito’s poetry online by chance but connected with it immediately. Although I’m a poet myself I dislike more poetry than a like and so to find a poet who consistently produced material that make me think or sometimes just amused me is an achievement in itself. Many of Vito’s poems are slight and if you saw a single one in a magazine you might read it, nod and pass on by. The full effect isn’t realised until you’ve read a sequence of his poems as you get the chance to here. This is something that a lot of poets don’t take enough care of. They publish a book with twenty or thirty poems in it but there’s no overall theme or flavour to the collection. That is not the case here. There is a story, a progression from college through marriage and ending in old age—like a family album. The 4-star rating is not to say that this collection is not good but I think he has potential for more. I’m also a little wary of 5-star reviews especially for first collections. Seamus Heaney’s first collection deserves 5-stars and Philip Larkin’s and Walt Whitman’s. 5 stars should mean something.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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