Kung Fu of the Dark Father

Kung Fu of the Dark Father presents not only the poets father the authors own enigmas but also a veritable lineage of men confronting what Lorca describes as the duende in art and life--mythologys insistence that one must enter the underworld before there is any hope of bearing light. Here we meet a destruction derby hero the Rolling Stones Freuds cocaine habit Meriwether Lewis less than heroic return from the great West; St. Augustine Copernicus Hemingways third son--each facing a darkness that poetry helps bear. There are also wild gurus wandering monks--a terrestrial crew despite celestial aspirations--the human in each of us with clay feet under a tainted moon.__________________- Praise for Dane Cervines Poetry -...has a fine sense both of language and the interconnectedness of human lives that for me is at the heart of poetry. --Adrienne Rich author of Later Poems: Selected & New...poems that matter...the beauty and pain of life become indistinguishable. Deliciously full of joy insight and awe. --Ellen Bass author of Like a Beggar/...it is really the passion and precision...that earns my full attention. --Tony Hoagland author of Application for Release from the Dream: Poems...clear struck bells. --Jane Hirshfield author of The Beauty