Wander Where They Will by Chuck Tripi

Wander Where They Will by Chuck Tripi

Wander Where They Will by Chuck Tripi

The poems not only dive deep into vast imagery, but they also are immersed in ideas. What is poetry if it is not trying to say something to the reader, to the writer and/or at a casual glance of the verse?

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Wander Where They Will by Chuck Tripi

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cyberwit.net (December 2, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 72 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9395224274
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9395224277
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.84 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.17 x 9 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #2,379,494 in Books

Reviewed by LB Sedlacek

 

Artful prose and free verse poems with a dash of rhyming here and there delight in this new collection by Chuck Tripi.  The book begins with a poem called “May” with the line “And then rivers ran and then poets sang.” This poem gives a glimpse into the lyrical like lines awaiting amongst the next pages.  The book overall covers a sense of loss and how to move through it and eventually past it in so many ways.

The poems not only dive deep into vast imagery, but they also are immersed in ideas.  What is poetry if it is not trying to say something to the reader, to the writer and/or at a casual glance of the verse? 

Tripi expertly captures the essence of certain real places, change, death, and leaving things behind, and more.  There is a potency to them.  A tug and pull at your emotions, your thoughts.

These poems contain deep heartfelt reflections.  Tripi skillfully displays his pain and his passions in each line.

From the poem:  “Forty-Seven Years of Sunset”:

“Into the hole the sun sinks in
goes the cove, first losing its glaze,
gone to a cloudy sheen in winter.
Only I remain, officer of lights,
neglectful for a little while.
Lush or barren, trees along the ridge
in a flare-up, pink and gold go in,
blaze and ridge—I have stayed here.”

The book carries with it great continuity.  And in that, it emphasizes a bit of hope while also drawing on a deep well of pain. 

He attains a sort of poetical accomplishment with these poems weaving in lines that compliment one another.  The poems seem to spring from the author’s personal life and heart wrenching grief and a coming to terms with it all in the end.

Tripi writes with true compassion.  There is a gentleness as well as a great knowledge to his poems.  He shows concern not only for his own immediate life, but also for others with this gift of his poems.

 

 

~LB Sedlacek is the author of “Swim,” “Night Swim,” “The Poet Next Door,” “Simultaneous Submissions,” “The Blue Eyed Side,” “Four Thieves of Vinegar & Other Short Stories,” and “The Jackalope Committee & Other Short Stories.”