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Maestro
Love SonnetsRoger Armbrust
Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., 2021
Roger Armbrust’s collection of 55 poems represents an extended love song for the world’s great classical composers. Many of the sonnets envision history’s maestros at some phase of their extraordinary lives. A few of the verses are celebrations of life which include a reverent mention of a master. Taken together, they convey the poet’s deep respect for these geniuses and the creative process. In one sonnet, he writes of Mendelssohn:
Sense of presence leading to reverence,
not so much awaking as reverie
evolving to understanding, essence
of living within all.
Armbrust conveys this mood of reverence, reverie, and understanding throughout this collection.
Sense of presence leading to reverence,
not so much awaking as reverie
evolving to understanding, essence
of living within all.
Armbrust conveys this mood of reverence, reverie, and understanding throughout this collection.
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Oh, Touch Me There
Love SonnetsRoger Armbrust
Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., 2013
Witty, humorous and wise reflections on loving
There is a mythic quality to the poetry of Roger Armbrust. Whether his subject is surgery or angels, his language and vision—while expressed in an earthly lexicon—are focused on the life of the spirit.
We constantly heal each other, love, true
to our senses, sharing our secret vaults
of fear and longing, faith and confusion,
doubt and delight.
Armbrust’s love poems are not ethereal, however, but rooted in real bodies…
My poetry honors your architecture’s mystery.
Fanciful, yet rooted in real experience, Armbrust’s one hundred-plus sonnets incite passion and introspection, so that the collection makes an inspired lover’s gift.
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Walked Through Storm to You
Love SonnetsRoger Armbrust
Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., 2022
Armbrust writes sonnets on a variety of themes, primarily addressed to his muse and his lovers. Since 1979, when his first book of poetry went to press, he continues to write, as if he opens a vein to pour his own blood onto the page to do it.
In this book of 126 sonnets, the poet invites us to walk with him as his creative sense takes us through every mood of nature on earth, and to the universe beyond. Imagery’s connections turn hearing 2 a.m. rain into Hemingway’s and James Dickey’s typewriter keys, leading the poet to write. Each poem seems to meld us to relationships.
In this book of 126 sonnets, the poet invites us to walk with him as his creative sense takes us through every mood of nature on earth, and to the universe beyond. Imagery’s connections turn hearing 2 a.m. rain into Hemingway’s and James Dickey’s typewriter keys, leading the poet to write. Each poem seems to meld us to relationships.
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