The Persimmon is an Event by Mike Corrao Alex McKeown whose enthusiastic gaze is directed

whose enthusiastic gaze is directed outward with energy and gladness'

as when the girl whose mother braided her hair is recognisable in another poem as the daughter who treasures the memory of braiding her aging mother’s snow-white

finding the tension between what the reality would have been and how such a voice would sound in today’s world

‘Staying Alive is a book which leaves those who have read or heard a poem from it feeling less alone and more alive’ – John Berger

polemicists and disbelieving masses

The Persimmon is an Event by Mike Corrao Alex McKeown whose enthusiastic gaze is directedIn The Persimmon is an Event Mike Corrao explores the yet to be created field of Ovidian Dynamics (a study of the body's metamorphic potentials) as the reader subject undergoes a series of unwieldy changes. These aphoristic poems are malleable segments, unfolding, like the Persimmon, from seed to tree. ABOUT Mike Corrao: Mike Corrao is the author of numerous works including Gut Text (11: 11 Press), Under Reef (Onomatopee), and Smut Maker (Inside the