The poetry in Marimba Forever is concerned with love and longing, which the author displays in all their multifarious guises. Many of the poems can be regarded as small films: nourish, action, farce or slapstick; others call music to mind: a tenor saxophone improvising on a standard melody in the wee small hours just as the milk man is getting up and rubbing sleep from his eyes; a roadhouse honky-tonk hell-raiser; six gypsies with accordions and tubas on the back of a flatbed truck somewhere near Ploestki or a marimba orchestra in a tropical town square playing like they never want to stop while palm trees sway and lovers neck on the green benches.
- ISBN10 1550713167
- ISBN13 9781550713169
- Publish Date 13 April 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 16 March 2021
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Guernica Editions,Canada
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English