Flicker and Hawk

by Patrick Friesen

With Flicker and Hawk Friesen expands the scope of his highly praised earlier works. These are poems from the gut and heart, occasionally underlined by other voices, dealing with themes of mortality, love, marriage, and spiritual explorations.

Genres: Poetry

71 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1987

Reviews

[Javier Ponce · Rating 4 out of 5]

When reading Patrick Friesen I will always be chasing the feeling I had when I read his "A Broken Bowl" book of poems. I am satisfied with "Flicker and Hawk" because this is the closest I could find. It is full of intimacy, love, family, and enough contemplation of/from his worldview to make it interesting enough.

[Jeffrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too self-indulgent for my liking and I was really annoyed by how Friesen structured the poems - I found myself re-reading lines that really didn't offer me anything worth the second glance - I'm going to try some of his other books to see if it is just this volume that I'm not engaged with or his writing in general - I got bored though with poems about his angst and his faith and his family - it didn't help that in the poem cycle that is at the heart of the book, there are pages missing - pages not printed - and that broke my connection with what might have been an interesting sequence of love poems? We'll see what I find in my next encounter with his verse but this was not a good start.