I am proud to announce the release of Pieces of April, my first book of poetry. Anxiety Press has supported and published this new release. The author has entered the world of publication for the first time, but the perspective is certainly not tentative or hesitant.
Reviews have so far been stellar, with two accomplished professional poets rating it 5 of 5 starts.
See this from Peter Mladinic:
Peter Mladinic
5.0 out of 5 stars Word Paradise
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2024
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The love of the spoken and written word is evident in Pieces of April, a collection of poems in part autobiographical and in part speculative, with an abiding concern for what Willam Faulkner calls “the old verities and truths of the heart.” “For when I light my nervous cigarette / The shifty smoke wafts about my head,” the speaker says in “Premonitions,” which begins the collection.
The poems resist the resignation “To finding comfort only in withdrawal,” a line that concludes Pieces of April. Among its best poems are: “Hershey Gold,” “Crystal Clear,”
“The Chimney in the Attic,” “Old Friends,”“House in the Clouds,” and “Why Should I Climb the Lookout?,” a response to Pound’s “The River Merchant’s Wife.” “Lookout” is one in a series response poems to poems by
Eliot, Frost, Roethke, and other notable twentieth century poets. Repko’s individual voice comes through, a voice attuned to the sight, sense, and sound in poems where his first-person I becomes first-person we.