Cities of the Soul Author:Scott Greer, Susan Bright (Editor) Scott Greers poetry strikes one like a force of nature, fusing together landscape, humanity, and the city. . . . It is a poetry of visionary passion and breath, rich with image and metaphor and music, an instrument capable of sublime effects of landscape and cityscape and the pageant of peoples crossing them. — From the furnace of language, from ... more »its continental sweep, the poetry modulates through a variety of tones to the softer, more intimate, tones of love. Love is the word to end on, for these are the poems of a man who loved the world in all its imperfection and studied to make it better, watching over it like a lover. -- Robert Siegel, Poet, author of The Beasts and the Elders and In a Pigs Eye.
Society is Scott Greers conscience and the theory of society is his invention. His anger at the carnage of war boils over in a series of vividly descriptive poems. He is dazed that people can be so terribly hurt, and needlessly.
The publication of Cities of the Soul is a timely reminder that human integrity will not be without a mouthpiece so long as there are poets like Scott Greer prepared to speak out, to articulate our horror and to soothe our despair. -- Carol Diethe, Reader, European Cultural History, Middlesex University, London. Author, Towards Emancipation: German Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century.
The breadth of his work mirrors the vibrancy of his era. Whether in intimate love lyrics or mediations on the spoils of war, his voice rings with passionate intensity and authentic engagement. Scott Greer understands that the brittle, jagged edges of history threaten human hope; but his poems also trace how the shape of love unites the forms of time.« less