Reading Carlo and Sophia - Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #422,525 in Books
Read these poems. Read them, and be prepared to enter an astonishing world in which you already live. This world is full of the familiar: rhododendron leaves, mourning doves, soup from a can. This world is full of the wondrous: supersonic play, ice fog, helical splines. What you cannot prepare yourself for is the alchemy of a Chuck Tripi poem, which will leave you saying of the familiar, “I never knew,” and of the wondrous, “Of course, it must be so.”
In this new world of yours, as you read these poems, you will barrel-roll, melt, drift, scatter, bob, turn, return, dance, stumble, swoon, fall, rise, land, ride, teeter, spin, dream, crave, crash, wake, yearn—but these are the names for sensations you already know, having lived in this world for so many years. In these poems, you will recognize the names of things you have been learning all your life. You will be introduced to your own senses, to your own mind.
Every poem in this collection affords a lesson in the use of imagery in the service of meaning, and meaning in the service of sense. How to understand a poem; how to understand a life, this life—that is what you will discover as you lose yourself in the pages of Carlo and Sophia.
So who, you may wonder, are Carlo and Sophia? Are they star-crossed lovers trying to reconcile what is with what should be? “What seemed implausible, / Carlo notices, begins to come true in the drift / of sleep and unreality, this generous prelude, rest.” Are they an old married couple, satisfied to have weathered life’s storms? “She loves the way the birch leaves turn to gold / before the end of August every year. / This reminds her of her impatient Carlo.” Are they an allegorical pair, a post-modern Adam and Eve trying to make sense of the turbulent paradise of this world? “Carlo wanders by himself / among the stars or on the cliffs / or in the friendliness of his mind.” Are they a symbol of duality, of paradox, body and spirit, thought and act...? Carlo and Sophia are all these possibilities, and more. They are, in fact, possibility itself.
Carlo and Sophia (Paperback) published by Cyberwit.net is available worldwide via Amazon USA and through publisher's site. The book is also available in India at Flipkart, Uread.com, Infibeam and Ombooks. http://www.cyberwit.net/publications/475
Chuck Tripi, a retired airline pilot, has been published widely in journals across the USA, including Journal of New Jersey Poets, Poetry East, Louisiana Literature, The Midwest Quarterly, and California Quarterly.
