More Odes to Common Things. Volume IVMore Odes to Common Things. Volume IV

"The series of books bearing the More odes to common things title, now in its fourth volume year, pays homage to a poetic form developed and popularized by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda with the publication of Odas elementales in 1954...In this volume, the poets of the Monarch Seven Collective share their love of the simple things in their lives - the sun, the moon, rain and Frosted Flakes, among other cherished objects. The verses reflect the lives and sensibilities of a group of writers unlike any other. All have experienced homeless. Some remain homeless and all live not only with the trauma of the experience but with a shared future high in housing insecurity. That they find such beauty and meaning in the world around them is testament to their resiliency and the optimism of youth."--