You Touched My Soul Vol 1 Selected Poems 19752013 The Long Strange Journey edition by Jack Tomkovick Literature Fiction eBooks
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Hi, My name is Jack Tomkovick. I write "Real poems for real people." I'm a 62 year old retired High School social studies teacher from Chapel Hill, N.C. Here are 30 selected poems, from 1975 to 2013, chronicling America, the world, and my commentary on life, love, justice, and religion.
There is a Kent State poem here, an Elvis poem, and Iraq War poem called "Less Dead", a baseball poem about a runner going from first to third, a God poem, an Arab-Israeli poem, and more than one love poem, including one comparing love to a grilled cheese sandwich. There is a cancer poem about my brother's death. There is a poem about men and women called Essential Differences. Finally, there is a Travon Martin poem, a 9/11 poem, and a wicked cigarette poem called, Marlboro Men. If that doesn't get your attention just a little bit, then I'm not the writer I think I am. Enjoy!
You Touched My Soul Vol 1 Selected Poems 19752013 The Long Strange Journey edition by Jack Tomkovick Literature Fiction eBooks
Thank you, Jack Tomkovich. You did touch my soul with your volume of poems. When in the history of English speaking peoples did we assign poetry to an admission-by-ticket-only field where only masters like Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, and Alan Shapiro can play? Tomkovick’s poetry shows a childlike curiosity for word creation that many like me lost touch with around puberty at the same time I began developing a knowledge and appreciation of Spenser, Shakespeare, Keats, Whitman, Dickenson, and others. Thank you, Jack, for the metaphor of love as grilled cheese sandwich and the image of God as the winner at sports trivia. Thanks for making palpable your pain at your brother’s death. Thanks for the call to love from the open refrigerator door and to sharing humanity with Ghandi and Einstein. And I loved the twist at the end of “Marlboro Men” and the vernacular of “rent a cop wannabe” and ‘everyone’s gotta eat.” And thanks for the wisdom of casting aside the “loamy blanket” of anger. Thanks for proving once again the power of words carefully chosen and shaped like a potter working clay by an Everyman who feels, and thinks, and loves.Product details
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You Touched My Soul Vol 1 Selected Poems 19752013 The Long Strange Journey edition by Jack Tomkovick Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
A very special man. So glad to have this copy of his poems, reflective of the wonderful insights I knew he possessed.
If the cover of this book really peaked my interest and the poems inside touched, inspired and moved me. I love this compilation of poems which reflect the life events throughout the life of the author. If you were born in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, you will identify with many of the poems.Other poems will draw you into the close life events of the author and his family. I read the book twice within a week. Here are some of my favorite poems in the book "Taken Off" (seeing the importance of letting go of anger); Essential Differences (tongue-in-cheek differences between men and women); Godliness is Next To (reminded me of the fun times I had playing baseball in my youth); Gandhi, Albert, & Me (reflections of M. Gandhi and Albert Einstein); First Corinthians Updated (Love Is); One of the Reasons I Love Her (Humor in Love); Soon But Not Just Yet (Another Expression of Love)
THANKS FOR TOUCHING THE SOULS OF OTHERS WITH YOUR POETRY, JACK TOMKOVICK!!!
Not everyone is fortunate enough to know Jack Tomkovich, but maybe they know someone like him. When there's a big news story, and it's been covered a thousand times over by each of the thousand different talking heads, but you still want to know Jack's take on it. Or something specific to your life is going on, and he gives it a new perspective that reinvigorates you for the week.
That's what you get in his book. Insight, sure. Introspection, of course. Humor, you bet. All those raw emotions under the context of personal moments laid bare to connect with others through the ups and downs of living in this crazy world.
When I learned Jack was releasing this book of poetry, I knew I had to pick it up. And if you know Jack, or someone like him, then you know you need to pick this up too. But if you don't, that's even more reason to pick this up and see what you've been missing. Either way, read a few poems, contact the author, start a dialog. You won't be disappointed.
"You Touched My Soul," by Jack Tomkovick is an exuberant collection of poems. It was interesting to me how he managed to infuse SO MUCH energy in his poems and yet used no exclamation marks. I'm so used to those marks indicating great enthusiasm, that I would almost expect some from such a highly-charged emotional book as Mr. Tomkovick's. A sub-title for the collection could be the Robert Frost line, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" -- because I was struck by the openness of the poet to have a real conversation with the reader. Mr. Tomkovick excavates his experiences poem by poem and invites us to dig in too, offering us as refreshment for our intellectual exercise and joy ride, a glass totally full (brimming over, in fact). Having set his scope for total honesty, we get the "hard rain gonna fall" (Bob Dylan) --but he doesn't let us dwell on the "glass darkly." Even in a poem like "Vigil" about his brother's difficult death, the poet points us toward the light.
His incredible love of words and word-play will daunt and amaze you. I'd never read poems that shook me out of walking at my own pace through a poem. His pace jolts you into his fast-paced meter -- and suddenly you are running with him through the poem! (Yes, I have to use an exclamation point.) Such enthusiasm! Such vitality! It is a gift he has, his high spirit He describes it in the poem, "I Too" about Icarus who flew too near the sun. But Mr. Tomkovick puts his own spin on the Icarus story wondering if it wouldn't be a sacrifice worth making, to "Iridetheair I live IFLY!"
Mr. Tomkovick has not taken himself too seriously; nor has he taken himself out of the real guts of life to write these verses -- he has thrust himself right in the middle of the world, this broken-in-so-many-ways world; and he doesn't mince words about its horrors and terrors. He is a witness, While he doesn't shrink from that role, he does challenge us to explore our turning, churning lives along with him. He examines death ("Hunting Hawk", "Vigil" among others), the question of how could God allow the holocaust to happen ("Godliness Is Next To"), the tragedy of Treyvon Martin ("In America"), 9/11 ("Harvest"), to name a few. These are not easy poems -- he tricks us a little by writing in a conversational tone, but he is writing from a moral universe. And, while we can enjoy the poems on OUR own terms, there is an undertone of great caring about excruciating conflicts and contradictions that he sees. In the last poem in the collection, "They Know How To Nurture," about medical staff who must always work on the hopeless cases, who live with the certainty of death every single day, it is almost like a hymn about what is happening in Africa at the moment.
I was particularly struck by "Marlboro Man" Every word is perfect in getting what needs to be said said, no holds barred, leaving the reader with the stunning image of The Grim Reaper in place of that he-man Marlboro man we are so familiar with in the cigarette ad. The poem is a perfect score and reminds me of the ee cummings line "how do you like your blueeyed boy, Mister Death?" These poems are Mr. Tomkovick's questions which require our answers to be complete, a life detector test we can pass if we'll just pay attention.
I'm a long-term friend of the author; I should get that out of the way early on.
The second thing to state up front is that I don't read much poetry. I read a good deal, but poetry is a blind spot for me.
The author's poetry addressed many topics that I knew were on his mind (his love for his family, his work, his church, his God, in no particular order) as well as many that were new to me. He addressed them in ways that I found articulate and moving, particularly with respect to his love for his family.
I believe that anyone (not just friends of the author) would find emotional sustenance in these poems, an outpouring of feeling and commitment and would recommend this book highly.
Thank you, Jack Tomkovich. You did touch my soul with your volume of poems. When in the history of English speaking peoples did we assign poetry to an admission-by-ticket-only field where only masters like Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, and Alan Shapiro can play? Tomkovick’s poetry shows a childlike curiosity for word creation that many like me lost touch with around puberty at the same time I began developing a knowledge and appreciation of Spenser, Shakespeare, Keats, Whitman, Dickenson, and others. Thank you, Jack, for the metaphor of love as grilled cheese sandwich and the image of God as the winner at sports trivia. Thanks for making palpable your pain at your brother’s death. Thanks for the call to love from the open refrigerator door and to sharing humanity with Ghandi and Einstein. And I loved the twist at the end of “Marlboro Men” and the vernacular of “rent a cop wannabe” and ‘everyone’s gotta eat.” And thanks for the wisdom of casting aside the “loamy blanket” of anger. Thanks for proving once again the power of words carefully chosen and shaped like a potter working clay by an Everyman who feels, and thinks, and loves.
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