{"id":66,"date":"2009-05-06T13:28:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T18:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/crowreviews\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-05-06T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T18:28:45","slug":"escapades-selected-prose-poems-2007-by-roger-aplon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/crowreviews\/2009\/05\/escapades-selected-prose-poems-2007-by-roger-aplon\/","title":{"rendered":"Escapades: Selected Prose Poems 2007 by Roger Aplon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received in the mail a package from Roger Aplon, who is a participant in this year\u2019s OW Chap Swap, and was pleasantly surprised.<br \/>\nHe is a well educated writer from many places around the world, but makes his home now in San Diego, CA.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>I was drawn to the brilliantly red cover of <em>Escapades<\/em><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>which was designed by Jane Darroch Riley.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>For the life of me, I could not find a publisher on this little chap so one must assume he has produced this himself.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>It is a beautiful book for being self published with richly textured cardstock and crisp white pages laced with delicate typeface. <!--more--><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">As a general rule I have never been one to enjoy prose poems, but Roger Aplon\u2019s <em>Escapades<\/em> has changed all that.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>His work is energetic and quick paced, and this might come from the lack of punctuation, but it works.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>He is able to create small worlds and character sketches and tender moments that hurl the reader forward and leave them wanting just a bit more.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>He makes them linger with his implied ideas letting the reader wander in their own imagination about the events that transpired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">This 18 poem collection has so many gems that it is difficult to really single a few out, but I was most impressed with \u201cI can\u2019t seem to find the key to the door\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u201cI caressed her ample breasts &amp; recounted the time in Winnemucca when an Elk the size of a locomotive charged our jeep &amp; tore right through the top with its perfect 14 point rack\u2014Yes\u2014&amp; tonight is a mystery<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>you\u2019ll not forget for its lack of color or candor\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">There is an uneasy sentiment and tenderness that doesn\u2019t seem to leave me after reading \u201cThe truth of the matter\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u201cshe wandered from her home caught a bus a cold &amp; married all in the same long night of which no one would speak or didn\u2019t until today when she arrived at the station bag in hand &amp; baby in arms to witness the feeding &amp; migration of the great white birds of her youth\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">Roger Aplon is able to capture such presence in a scene while somehow remaining detached as if he is merely an observer to events, a stereotypical fly on the wall who is anything but predictable.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>In \u201cEach time he left her stranded\u201d, he witnesses those unseen moments between a man and a woman:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; 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mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Serifa Th BT&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">Escapades<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Serifa Th BT&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"> is one little book of prose poems you don\u2019t want to be without.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>You can contact him for purchase at:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>www.rogeraplon.com <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received in the mail a package from Roger Aplon, who is a participant in this year\u2019s OW Chap Swap, and was pleasantly surprised. 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