Michael Estabrook
A recently retired baby boomer poet freed finally after working 40 years for “The Man” and sometimes “The Woman," Michael attends no more useless meetings under florescent lights in stuffy windowless rooms. Now he’s able to devote serious time to making better poems when he’s not, of course, trying to satisfy his wife’s legendary Honey-Do List.
In 2009, Michael had this to say:
"My apprenticeship as a poet over the past 20 years has prepared me for my latest project – The Patti Poems, poems (and some prose) about my wife. This project will be my magnum opus, what I will spend the rest of my life on. It is all I care about, all that is important to me. It (and she) has become a bit of an obsession. And, oh woe is me, it definitely has a mind of its own, pulling me all over the place, so far becoming a collection of 21 books. But well, so often we do these things simply because we must. Patti is my climb up Mount Everest. I must try my best to capture the pure, ethereal beauty of this most incredible woman, not only the most beautiful woman I have ever known, but the most beautiful person I have ever known. I’m not certain, quite honestly, if I am up to the task, that I have the talent and poetic apparatus to be successful, but well, what choice do I have really? Where is Dante when I need him? He has sent me off through Purgatory and into Paradise all by myself."
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