John H. Erickson

Ancient Wisdom in Modern Verse

Arts & Literature

Foreword

“In some ways the chronological arrangement according to the dates of those quoted reminds me of Erasmus’s Adagia and other Renaissance collections of wise sayings, except that instead of prose mini-essays, S T Kimbrough Jr. has given his readers poetry. With careful consideration of the meters and rhyme schemes most appropriate for each saying, he turns ancient epigrams into meditations.”

Living with Coronavirus

Arts & Literature

“With the graceful simplicity of Wesley hymns, S T Kimbrough’s poems bring us face to face with reality—a word that occurs often in this collection. Yet how can anything be face to face in our masked, no-contact Covid-19 world? S T responds to such questions with wry humor, as when he imagines social distancing with the aid of a six-foot selfie-stick. He also can lash out with righteous indignation at the global scope of governmental failure. But in his concluding poems, this man of faith opens before us a horizon of hope. In the face of death, we cannot expect to return to pre-Covid normalcy, but we can ‘turn now to love, each one for all.’”