The Home Atlas, Poems by David Feela
The wry humor and sharp insight of David Feela’s The Home Atlas make this collection an excellent guide to the unexpected depth of the everyday.
“What I have always loved about David Feela’s poetry is its distinctive blend of solemnity and wit, and the poems in The Home Atlas offer this and more. Whether it’s Petrarch, Mother Teresa, or his own mother writing letters about the weather, Feela’s compass steers him clean to each poem’s immaculate heart. ‘Places invent their language,’ the poet tells us. David Feela unwraps language’s possibilities and offers them as precise and perfect gifts.”—Lisa Lenard-Cook, author of Dissonance, Coyote Morning, and The Mind of Your Story.
“David Feela is the voice of a voyager, but one who turns his caring and keen traveler’s eyes on the landscape of home and family. The Home Atlas is a wilderness guide for each of us on own terrific yet close-at-hand adventures, right here, right now, where ever we might be, on our own voyages of the heart.”—Ken Wright, author of The Monkey Wrench Dad and Why I'm Against It All
“David Feela’s poems speak with a sort of ironic voice that allows a range of emotions from the tender to the tough, from the comic to the tragic, and with rare intelligence. They are as unpredictable as the world we face and so are a wonderful and knowing reflection of it, and more, they discover what we didn’t know before, the rare vision that this stunning new poet brings to that world.”—Richard Jackson, author of Part of the Story, Worlds Apart, Alive All Day, and Heartwall
“These poems are the work of a bemused philosopher and humorist whose explorations of some historical moments create memorable images and revelations. These are poems I would like to send into space for other beings to decode because they reveal with a gentle touch and considerable intelligence a lot about who we are and where we are going.”—Leslie Ullman, author of Natural Histories, Dreams by No One’s Daughter, and Slow Work Through Sand
“Feela is a master of the transcendent quotidian. He shapes life’s little moments into brilliant epiphanies of light and grace and unfailing good humor. His flourish of language prizes the accessible, the simple, while always injecting a wry twist of compassion, not cynicism. Use these poems like get-out-of-jail-free cards. No-sit meditations. They will take you past gaming, past lies, into the deep heart of the mystery.”—Art Goodtimes, author of As If the World Really Mattered
David Feela is a poet, free-lance writer, retired high school English instructor, book collector, and thrift store pirate. He graduated from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota with a degree in English and Creative Writing, then completed an MFA in poetry at Vermont College. His work has been anthologized in a dozen collections and has appeared in literally hundreds of magazines, both regional and national publications, including the High Country News “Writers on the Range,” Mountain Gazette, and as a "Colorado Voice" for The Denver Post. He is a contributing editor and columnist for Inside/Outside Southwest and for The Four Corners Free Press. A poetry chapbook, Thought Experiments (Maverick Press), won the 1998 Southwest Poets’ Series. The Home Atlas is his first full length poetry collection.
ISBN: 978-1934999479, 80 pages, $18.00
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