The Runner's Almanac

<p><strong>This intimate and haunting collection is a love song a soliloquy a work of praise a call to arms an offering of abundance. There's an urgency to The Runner's Almanac: what's inside the poet must come out. These are poems of gusto of movement-walking jogging striding hopping-toward love inevitably. Amirthanayagam is a poet of plurality who savors how a poem gets out of hand bursts its banks spills into the mind of the reader. I think of Amirthanayagam that sharp and tender poetic voice of his as a village elder a guide a truth-teller. But he's the elder that will hold your feet to the fire and not let you forget. More than ever in The Runner's Almanac one feels his purpose / even clearer to dedicate what / remains of breath love and work / to spread the word of poetry.</strong></p><p><br></p>