Poems
by Gary Margolis
The University of Georgia Press, 1986
These are poems of the present, of commercials and human interest stories, of the drive-in windows that make banks and bedrooms of our cars. These poems trace the faint erasures of time and human relationships -- following runners as they pause by the Ticonderoga ferry and Lake Champlain, riding with tourists across a river to an old fort, the distant sounds of a historic slaughter obscured by the misfiring pistons of an inboard motor and by the unforgiving surf.
Describing the world he has seena and loved as well as how that world sometimes threatens itself, Gary Margolis speaks with caring humor and seriousness of the brokenness and beauty of America's present.
Gary Margolis is director of counseling and part-time associate professor of English at Middlebury College in Vermont. He has been a Robert Frost Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and a recipient of a Vermont Council on the Arts Award, and is the author of The Day We Still Stand Here (Georgia, 1983), a collection of poems.