Download or read book Taken Somehow By Surprise written by David Clewell and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Clewell’s spirited poems cut through the noise we too often accommodate in our daily lives. Breath by surprising breath, this poet takes us into chambers of the heart that have never been mapped quite this way before. By turns raucous and strangely soothing, narrative and lyrical, Clewell traffics in unlikely and compelling details of our mostly discernible world: a school custodian’s role in the burgeoning Space Race, the vastness of abandoned missile silos, the first lawn flamingos, and the living fossil still using a typewriter.