Where Grasses Bend

Poems from Portland to Steens mountain in the time of plagues

By: Mimi German

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Paperback | 1 September 2023

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March 2020. America began to shut down due to the Sars-COVID pandemic. Travel was halted. Workers were required to stay home. Medical facilities became flooded with sick and dying patients. Senior living homes locked their doors to family members. But what of the lovers? Part l of this book is dedicated to all the lovers who were separated by the pandemic, who could no longer access love, human contact, and intimacy, for what is a world without love?

The poems in Part II were written about our country's declining state, the growing rate of poverty due to the pandemic, and the deconstruction of humanity that has taken place during the past 3 years of Covid.

As the years of the pandemic suffered on and hatred festered in the United States, my partner and I decided to move away from the insanity of the city for the open wilderness of Oregon where we could once again breathe deeply, living our lives regenerating love while becoming stewards of this beautiful land upon which we live. The poems in Part lll are an homage to desert life in the wilderness.

Industry Reviews

"A paean to love in the time of plagues, a poignant precise elucidation

of the desolation row death of the American Dream, and a rapturous ode

to the mysterium tremendum the awe inspiring terrible beauty of

the high desert. With raven eyed razor sharp lyricism Mimi German's

WHERE GRASSES BEND is a masterpiece of poetry."

--Ron Whitehead, Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate

"Mimi's verses elevate and embrace the voices of the vulnerable, forgotten, and disenfranchised. These words are weapons sheathed in love." --Peggy & Brian Manning, Owner's of Revolutions Bookshop Portland, OR

"German is a grit queen of the outlaw rebel poet tradition, of the oral tradition of the Beats, Howling in anger and truth."

---Karlostheunhappy, International Beat Poet Laureate (England) 2022-2023

I love these new poems by poet/Beatmaster, Mimi German. I recommend you get a copy of Where Grasses Bend, but instead of reading the poems alone--at least--on the first time through--read them with a friend...

--Dennis Bernstein, Poet and Award Winning Investigative Journalist, Host of Flashpoints on Pacifica's KPFA station.

They come to me like Sapho's poems, which I like very much.

---Dr. Ignacio Gotz, Professor Emeritus (Philosophy and Religion) Hofstra University

Words like waves of memories longing...

----Michael Orr, Intermedia Artist of Visual Poetry

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