David Humphreys
My Shepherd by: David Humphreys / Average Rating: 
Rating: - A strong voice indeed!, January 20, 2000
Reviewer: A reader
Media: Mass Market Paperback, Manufacturer: The Poet’s Corner Press
John McGinley of the Sacramento Poetry Center reviewed "My Shepherd" by David Humphreys in the March issue of Poetry Now, 1998 writing, "David calls his style of writing "roller coaster collage" and I tend to agree. Reading him is quite a ride. Some of his poems, like "Firestone Library" and "Magpie" are so comfortable and familiar that you feel as if you might have helped write them. Others, like "Six Way Bypass Over Coffee At The Bookstore" are so tense and painful that you finish the poem with a sense of relief that it wasn’t you who had to live through that particular experience. He’ll relate the wild conversations of children at play and inventory the absurdities of their discarded and jumbled toys in "Several Obscurities" and then take you off to some equally odd adult universe in his "Space Cowboy". He does quick-witted satire in "So?" (Subterfuge Satire): "I feel like the programmed ignition of a personal singularity, big bang cosmic robotic spot-weld, titanic collision with the fog as well as the iceberg, becoming the event" and then he comes up with heartfelt lines like those in "She Is There": "Watching her as she leans on the swing she looks off at the roses and I see that she has taken on the dimensions of her life at school which has drawn shadows along her edges so that a flat surface no longer contains her." There is much more in this book that makes it well worth reading. Whatever you do, buy a copy of it and share it with others. This is a strong voice indeed!"
David Humphreys has played an instrumental part of the artistic written community through his Poet’s Corner Press publications and events. See the biography page for more details on how he has made a difference in the poetry world.
David Humphreys © 2005
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