Fricke’s This Book of Poems You Found (The Illuminated Sea Press, 2010), which unexpectedly won them the Village Soup “Best Local Author” award for authors in Waldo County in 2011, is a concept volume that plays off ideas of time, insignificance, and haphazard discovery, touching on the place of the individual in the course of human history and what reader and author, equally anonymous, have in common.
A mosey from the mundane to the baroque and back again, the book offers 'poems and riddles and cities, marble and mash,' addressing itself to the very reader who is left over after the author is long forgotten.
“We know we are in the realm of Whitman’s kin, yet this ‘mind aflame’ comes with a surrealist’s twist and humor …a fantastic abundance of language. This is a poet who greets ‘the scenes that swallow him in fresh splendor.’ …I felt a child’s delight.”
– ELIZABETH GARBER, Poet, Pierced by the Seasons, Listening Inside the Dance
“Each piece (whether one word or hundreds) is delicious and complex …I have read many of these pieces again and again, and never the same way twice. Their images and music and flow stay with me after the reading, and draw me back to read again.”
– JOAN YOUNGKEN, formerly Curator, Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island
“A box of lost delights – a rendezvous with the mundane and the baroque – a clear sound in the middle of a dark place – a pleasure to open, and to close again.”
– NORMAN PLANTER, Gentleman, New Haven, Connecticut
A mosey from the mundane to the baroque and back again, the book offers 'poems and riddles and cities, marble and mash,' addressing itself to the very reader who is left over after the author is long forgotten.
“We know we are in the realm of Whitman’s kin, yet this ‘mind aflame’ comes with a surrealist’s twist and humor …a fantastic abundance of language. This is a poet who greets ‘the scenes that swallow him in fresh splendor.’ …I felt a child’s delight.”
– ELIZABETH GARBER, Poet, Pierced by the Seasons, Listening Inside the Dance
“Each piece (whether one word or hundreds) is delicious and complex …I have read many of these pieces again and again, and never the same way twice. Their images and music and flow stay with me after the reading, and draw me back to read again.”
– JOAN YOUNGKEN, formerly Curator, Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island
“A box of lost delights – a rendezvous with the mundane and the baroque – a clear sound in the middle of a dark place – a pleasure to open, and to close again.”
– NORMAN PLANTER, Gentleman, New Haven, Connecticut