Many Sparrows --by donnarkevic

 Nonfiction / Poetry

66 pages

5 stars

 

 

This slim book contains some large and powerful poems and images. A memoir in poems of the author growing up a Polish Catholic altar boy in a steel town beside the Ohio River. He writes of growing up, of facing death when another boy dies by suicide, of being given those boys clothes, of taking over his paper route, of growing into a man.

 

donnarkevic’s poetry is easily accessible in its conversational tone, his images are powerful, his stories are rivetting.