Harry Griswold Pens New Collection of Poems
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Harry Griswold’s Camera Obscura is a quiet collection filled with humorous and sometimes savage ironies and the quirks that only the best poets reveal: wisdom, insight, artistic integrity, an ability to stir:
“…cockles and swirls, damp indentations,
rising shafts of lubricous energy,
some grassy places
people still run their bare feet through.”
These poems are gripping. They do what brilliant poems should do — make you close your eyes and smile with understanding and gratitude.
- Duff Brenna, author of Waking in Wisconsin, poetry collection published by Borealis Press, 1984
Harry Griswold is the kind of poet you would like to sit down with. He’s weaving stories and he knows just how much to show, how much to tell. You won’t find a false step or easy theatrics. Camera Obscura is the work of an experienced, astute man, very worthwhile taking in. We need more wisdom in our poetry and Griswold delivers.
—Eloise Klein Healy, author of The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho (Red Hen Press, 2007)
Harry Griswold’s poetry is filled with a multiplicity of voices, characters, and experiences, all offered with a quiet lyricism. There is a tenderness in his way of seeing the events of the world and the people who inhabit it. Whether his character is a young woman who reveals her sense of violation or a child overhearing his mother talking about someone else’s breast cancer, Harry Griswold’s poetry reveals a concern for the world in which we live, and he renders that concern with an observant eye and honest voice.
—Steve McDonald, author of Where There Was No Pattern (Finishing Line Press, 2007)
Harry Griswold’s Camera Obscura is a quiet collection filled with humorous and sometimes savage ironies and the quirks that only the best poets reveal: wisdom, insight, artistic integrity, an ability to stir:
“…cockles and swirls, damp indentations,
rising shafts of lubricous energy,
some grassy places
people still run their bare feet through.”
These poems are gripping. They do what brilliant poems should do — make you close your eyes and smile with understanding and gratitude.
- Duff Brenna, author of Waking in Wisconsin, poetry collection published by Borealis Press, 1984
Harry Griswold is the kind of poet you would like to sit down with. He’s weaving stories and he knows just how much to show, how much to tell. You won’t find a false step or easy theatrics. Camera Obscura is the work of an experienced, astute man, very worthwhile taking in. We need more wisdom in our poetry and Griswold delivers.
—Eloise Klein Healy, author of The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho (Red Hen Press, 2007)
Harry Griswold’s poetry is filled with a multiplicity of voices, characters, and experiences, all offered with a quiet lyricism. There is a tenderness in his way of seeing the events of the world and the people who inhabit it. Whether his character is a young woman who reveals her sense of violation or a child overhearing his mother talking about someone else’s breast cancer, Harry Griswold’s poetry reveals a concern for the world in which we live, and he renders that concern with an observant eye and honest voice.
—Steve McDonald, author of Where There Was No Pattern (Finishing Line Press, 2007)
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