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Pure Luck & Good Fury
Pure Luck & Good Fury
Pure Luck & Good Fury
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Humor, depression, anger, loss, and spiritual transcendence. David Jonathan Newman's first collection of poems, Pure Luck and Good Fury, artfully delves into the fragile state of the human condition. Provocative sentiment and satisfying imagery join forces to wage a war of words that is at once terrifyingly beautiful and painful. Pure Luck and Good Fury is a powerful first personal statement. The fire and grace of Newman's poems heralds a new era for contemporary American poetry.
LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateNov 21, 2002
ISBN9781469708096
Pure Luck & Good Fury
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David Jonathan Newman

David Newman was born in 1976 in Waterbury, CT. In 1998, he received a degree in pharmacy from UCONN. Although he earns a living as a pharmacist, his real passions are poetry and creative writing. Current projects include a new collection of poems tentatively titled The Light Looks Another Way.

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    Pure Luck & Good Fury - David Jonathan Newman

    Pure Juck

    &

    Good Fury

    David Jonathan Newman

    Writers Club Press

    New York Lincoln Shanghai

    Pure Luck & Good Fury

    All Rights Reserved © 2002 by David Jonathan Newman

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    ISBN: 0-595-25101-3 (Pbk)

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    Printed in the United States of America

    Contents

    I Pure

    black skies burn

    zoo scenes

    Possible truths, probable worlds

    5th season

    The lonely one after

    Destination desolation

    The silent progression

    A foolish melody

    Inamorata

    Taste a world collapsed

    Muy apocalyptica

    Just another

    Like fire

    Rising in love

    What love is

    Moon Music

    Little so much

    Step-pyramid Immortality (part 1)

    Paper-cut heart

    Holiday X

    of frost and fire (you know who you are)

    Sex is religion

    Speed of This Night

    Black again

    II Luck

    My eyes

    ritual self-destruction blues

    spiral cities

    exit song

    24365

    Hindsight

    Reflection, refraction

    Invitation

    Collecting winter secrets (part 1)

    Animation, pale society, and the songbird

    Enlightenment: the arrival

    Fatalistic attitude for Philip Parris Lynott

    Present perfect

    To kill the light

    My lone true being

    low science

    Things that are infinite and things that are not

    Space junk

    Underneath a miracle

    Step - pyramid Immortality (part 2)

    Misfits in Mesopotamia

    A template for desperate days

    Gravity of the Sea

    Sarcasm and Latte

    Half-lives

    III Good

    let the nightlight roar!

    Weather Man

    Energy

    The author

    Questioning His Existence (part 1)

    shadow still stands

    Watermarks

    the liquid giving life

    Thanksgiving

    High Numbers

    Renaissance of Me

    Phoenix

    Friendship Blender

    I am the Pig Capitalist

    Personal Scenery

    Laughter turns to Light

    Ruminant

    Reconciling the Taboo of Cannibalism While Trapped in a Space Ship

    Space between words

    To all who would be king

    Flowers sent

    The evolution of me

    Verse and chapter

    Sweet Kathleen

    We breed the inanity, you breed the insanity

    Flicker

    Inspiration She Is

    IV Fury

    Good Fury

    Existence and the extent of emptiness

    The tomorrow people

    Worries of the Weathermaker (Excerpt from God’s Journal)

    Serendipitous

    Pure

    Driven by Entropy

    Going Nuclear

    Redundancy of Data

    Infection

    Stale as Ice

    Citizen of Nowhere

    Son of a Holocaust Survivor

    Questioning His Existence (part 2)

    Passive aggressor

    On the broken back of the stars

    Kali

    Eyes of Analysis

    Grass is Greener Syndrome

    Retribution Heart

    The Final Misanthropic Hurt

    Alison

    for William and Joan

    I

    Pure 

    black skies burn 

    My life’s in a dangerous way

    as black skies swirl above.

    Empty sorrowed horizons,

    I am a wastrel.

    Any chance of light, or motivation, or change?

    Passion is dead,

    And what says emotion?

    Lowering (darkly) is the pain.

    Though I sense a world of possibility,

    warm and bright

    one look at the fading colors

    outside

    lets me know

    my world will remain

    cold,

    dead,

    without life.

    As sure as the winter frost approaching

    what once was my love,

    my light...

    is gone.

    what once was my purpose,

    my reason...

    is wrong.

    So black skies burn

    above my head and in my soul.

    Lessons are taught,

    I never learn.

    Love is loss.

    Again and again hearts are overcome.

    What once was her embrace.

    is lost.

    What once was paradise.

    is gone.

    So be it

    my love,

    she is dead.

    So be it

    my life-coil,

    she is spent.

    So be it

    black skies,

    we shall burn.

    zoo scenes 

    defenseless

    and waiting to disintegrate

    I’m no longer a

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