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In The Rear View Mirror
- Poems by Phil Weidman -
Phil Weidman is a long time friend. His poems continue to
fascinate me. Years ago I used a quote of his because it hit so deeply: “…it’s
love we crave …love the healer…if you ruin yourself to the point that you can’t
love, the ballgame is over.” This depth of feeling comes up often in his poems.
The connection to joy and acceptance. Battering down the old ego. But
remembering we also have to laugh at ourselves. There is respect in these poems,
humor, daily experiences, and a man who roams the wide range of
himself ,
finding the lost calf in winter, noticing the landscape and the start and end of
a day. In one poem he writes of “recharging a battery that has outlived its
warranty”, and this is where his poetry really works for me. Weidman goes the
extra step in his emotions. He can take you with him. He writes: “…wilderness
doesn’t stop at forest edge. It continues in me”.
Ann Menebroker
Phil Weidman writes as if he sat down with suffering, listened
to it with all his heart, and put it into plain words for us. And then he opens
the door and takes us along for a walk in the forest with his dog. Look, he
says, how crisp the air is. He doesn’t let the poetry get in the way of clear
vision, but his lines stay with us. He’s taking us on a walk to open our eyes.
Taylor Graham
I'm always pleased by Phil Weidman’s poems. Often brief, even the shortest
present a clear vision, and an intense, eloquent voice concerned with an
individual human’s struggles and victories in a troubled world. They work.
Ruth Kempher
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Born in Alturas, California in 1936, and graduated from Chico High
School, Phil Weidman served two years in the U.S. Army, then worked as a
newspaper reporter, landscape gardener and warehouseman. A practicing
visual artist for thirty years, who exhibited throughout Northern
California, he graduated from California State College, Sacramento with
a Bachelor’s Degree in 1968 and a Master’s degree in 1970. In
Sacramento, he taught a variety of subjects in Sacramento schools,
including McClasky School for Handicapped Adults, and he worked with
at-risk youth in an after-school program in Sacramento County. He lives
in Pollock Pines, CA with his wife Pat.
Phil is the author of ten books of poetry, beginning with Sixes in
1968 (The Runcible Spoon) and the latest being I Haven’t Yet Opened My
Eyes in 2011 (Chiron Review Press). His poetry has appeared in
periodicals as varied as The American Bard, Hearse, Scree, Olé, Stance,
Pinch Penny, Poetry Now, Red Cedar Review, Caprice, Sure, The Wormwood
Review, Nerve Cowboy, Pearl, Chiron Review, and Rattlesnake Review. His
work has appeared in three anthologies: Revolutionary Poetry (New York,
1972) Landing Signals (Sacramento, 1985) and At the Gate: Departures and
Arrivals (Kings Estate Press).
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