The Persimmon is an Event by Mike Corrao Alex McKeown less the lyric than the

less the lyric than the epylion

for which he reached back to the expressionist era and also to the post-war Viennese avant-garde

‘Staying Alive is a book which leaves those who have read or heard a poem from it feeling less alone and more alive’ – John Berger

as when the girl whose mother braided her hair is recognisable in another poem as the daughter who treasures the memory of braiding her aging mother’s snow-white

The Persimmon is an Event by Mike Corrao Alex McKeown less the lyric than theIn The Persimmon is an Event Mike Corrao explores the yet to be created field of Ovidian Dynamics (a study of the body's metamorphic potentials) as the reader subject undergoes a series of unwieldy changes. These aphoristic poems are malleable segments, unfolding, like the Persimmon, from seed to tree. ABOUT Mike Corrao: Mike Corrao is the author of numerous works including Gut Text (11: 11 Press), Under Reef (Onomatopee), and Smut Maker (Inside the