The Great Outdoors: Poems

By David Novick

The poems contained in The Great Outdoors are a further realization of the author’s journey toward ‘naturalism’. The structural elements point in this direction. Love, history, family, business, travel, is the palette David Novick works from. Vibrations create sound and language captures that sound. By applying that language one hopes to unlock the existential answers that exist in the natural occurrences of the everyday. The poems were written between 2016 and 2018 with the exception of ‘Trucker’ and ‘Mysterious Virus’. The front cover is a selfie from May 2016. The author settled on the title and front cover in 2018. Eventually reality caught up with art. When that happens we all pay the price. ‘Mysterious Virus’ is a tribute to those events.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781796099188

David Novick

David Novick is a businessman who resides in Massachusetts with his wife. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and subsequently attended the University of Arizona MFA Creative Writing Program. The Great Outdoors is David Novick’s fourth book of poetry. His previous three books of poetry are Noises from the Garage, Reflection of a Hologram, and Keepsake. He continues to work and write at a furious pace.

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Front Cover- Selfie 2016

Back Cover- Elizabeth Novick 2019

Rev. date: 05/23/2020

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To the blessed memory of my uncle Irving Novick

About the Author

David Novick is a businessman who resides in Massachusetts with his wife. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a bachelor of arts degree in literature and subsequently attended the University of Arizona MFA creative writing program. The Great Outdoors is David Novick’s fourth book of poetry. His previous three books of poetry are Noises from the Garage, Reflection of a Hologram, and Keepsake. He continues to work and write at a furious pace.

About the Book

The poems contained in The Great Outdoors are a further realization of the author’s journey toward ‘naturalism’. The structural elements point in this direction. Love, history, family, business, travel, is the palette David Novick works from. Vibrations create sound and language captures that sound. By applying that language one hopes to unlock the existential answers that exist in the natural occurrences of the everyday. The poems were written between 2016 and 2018 with the exception of ‘Trucker’ and ‘Mysterious Virus’. The front cover is a selfie from May 2016. The author settled on the title and front cover in 2018. Eventually reality caught up with art. When that happens we all pay a price. ‘Mysterious Virus’ is a tribute to those events.

Contents

About the Author

About the Book

The Mirror’s Mistake

Beacon Eyes

Damn Right

Play Life at Its Own Game

Uncle Irving

Mind the Gap

Observed From a Booth

January 21, 2017

A Slice of the Neighborhood

Weather’s Discourse

Vienna to Boston Direct

Massachusetts

You Say Mother I Say Mom

A Blip on the Screen

OfficeJet Ready

The Call

Peregrine, Rocco, and I

Catalog of Remembrance

Trucker

Baking Soda

Back to Basics

Beat Life at Its Own Game

From a White Wire Chair on the Porch

Post-Truth

Tumbler and Jigger

Rummage Sale

This Is What Opportunity Looks Like

Don’t Change a Thing

October 19

Backyard Notes

Cedar Closet

End-of-Week Run

News and Views

Washington, DC

Sketch of an Open Mic for Steve’s Sixty-Fifth

Trump Hotel

Work Relationships

The Great Outdoors

Office Wall Calendar

Small-Town Crucible

Holy Land

Auto

More People

And They’re Off

Safety Net

Sign of Spring

Snail Mail

Bee Homily

Nighttime Prey

Contact Three Ways

Your Secret Is Safe with Me

A Stroll

A Silly Diversion

Rittenhouse Square

Highway Report

The Dancing Tree

On His Way out the Door

Tree of Life

Holiday Cards

Anatomy’s Humanity

Mysterious Virus February 28, 2020

The Mirror’s Mistake

To separate myself from night’s