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Praise for Green Lion
Beto Cumming’s poems in Green Lion sneak up on you by stealth of wit and longing. In his world where shapeshifting brings both power and perspective amid loss, each poem slouches toward the open door.
—Linda Parsons, author of Candescent
Green Lion is “full of balls and testosterone” along with powerful nods to the feminine. Among Beto Cumming’s surprising words, you’ll find his inner child, “a husk of an old man,” and much in between as he spans the universe in six unique poems.
—Cathy Kodra, author of Under an Adirondack Moon
The poems in Green Lion are filled with satire, humor and invention, several of them directed toward the narrative self. “The next poem…” at the ending contains 14 couplets, which could easily be writing prompts for the reader, some dangerous, some contemplative. One couplet which calls to “explore inner contours of landscape” Cumming does in the poem “Visitation.” He dreams his mother soon after her death. Carmen Montes Cumming was a beautiful, wise and genuine person. When the poet wakes, he knows that she haunts this empty space inside him.
—Bill Brown, author of The Cairns: New and Selected Poems
