Dynamite on a China Plate

by Jay Leeming

Original poems by Jay Leeming, winner of The Readers' Choice Award from The Backwaters Press for 2003.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Jay Leeming is a poet whose works have appeared in a variety of magazines including Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry East, and Pleiades. He has been a featured reader at Butler University, Robert Bly’s Great Mother Conference and the Woodstock Poetry Festival. He has taught poetry workshops throughout the United States and abroad, and is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Ithaca, New York. (source: his website)

Reviews

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this short collection of poems for Christmas. Some of them are quite beautiful and others are clever and funny. I'm going to use "Man Writes Poem" with my students - it is a poem written about a news reporter reporting on a guy writing a poem and has the line "no metaphors have been written yet, but I'm sure he's rummaging around down there in the tin cans of his soul and will turn up something for us soon."

[Jonathan Wichmann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Charming, surprising, and delightful. His inventive images are wonderful. As I read I realized he grew up in or lived for a long time in Minnesota, and I wonder if there's some subconscious resonance with his outlook for me.

[Emma the Dork · Rating 5 out of 5]

a great book....the poet is amazing.

[Julene · Rating 4 out of 5]

He just came to Seattle this weekend. Great imagery and really fluid writing with good metaphors so I bought his book. He read lots of new work as well as from his book. He has studied with Bly.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Marvelously startling poetry, filled w/ surprises. Leeming constantly throws the unexpected at the reader. But the poems are not sloppy; they are crafted w/ fine precision. This one is delightful.