The Unnumbered Anniversaries

<p>Every day is an anniversary of sorts yet we choose to celebrate memorialize or mourn only a few. What about the other days of our lives those that will never merit Silver Gold or Diamond yet when added together-joy mingled with sorrow heartbreak leavened by laughter-ultimately constitute this thing we call life? These are <em>The Unnumbered Anniversaries</em> Kurt Olsson seeks to commemorate within these unflinching poems and pages. </p><p>At heart The Unnumbered Anniversaries is a testament to the ordinary those fragments of time and place of people and things that distance and reflection somehow transform into the extraordinary. <em>The empty soda can that doubled as an ashtray. The stray dog that shadowed you to school and back. The Willie Mays catch you made that summery afternoon</em>.... </p><p>Relatable. Affecting. Witty. And scrubbed of all pretension... <em>The Unnumbered Anniversaries</em> might well change your idea of not just what poetry is but all that poetry can be. Indeed this is not a collection to be read once and set aside with a pleasant nod or two but rather an experience you will return to with cherished frequency. As Olsson observes in his slyly subversive penultimate entry <strong><em>At some point you will thank God whether you believe or not.</em></strong> Amen!</p>