I Have Been Moved

Are you looking for a poet who thinks that its possible to be lucid yet deep? Would you welcome verse thats NOT mired in political correctness or identity politics? A poetry thats not tethered to any particular movement? Would you like to read poetry in which spellbinding rhythms lapidary language fresh metaphors/associations and interesting ideas are abundantly present? How about poetry that seeks for the sacred without being caught in outmoded religious thinking? If these are some things youd like Yacov Mitchenko is the poet for you. Sophisticated without being pedantic emotional without being sentimental accessible yet multi-layered mystical and well grounded Mitchenkos poetry shows immense range. There are metaphysical poems (e.g. Poem You Are Not Yourself) poems about family (e.g. Mother to Son For My Son Red Cottage Days) wonderful nature poems (e.g. Amsterdam Park March 22nd) love poems (e.g Youre Lying There Still Asleep Because of You in Light of You) a meditative philosophical sequence featuring the Anonymous One and poems which celebrate diversity cultural or otherwise (e.g. Despite Cultural Differences Poem For the World More Beautiful Differences). Overall Mitchenkos poetry is an attempt to engage with the world with oneself at a profound level.