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  • An accomplished classical guitarist, lover of all things Joan of Arc and late night scholar of Henry David Thoreau, poet Troy Casa, has lived in wonderfully strange places like Reno, Nevada, Gahanna, Ohio and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, all the while, poem writing. Currently, he lives with his partner "George" and their two sons, Keats & Kincaide, in Merrimack, New Hampshire. :
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  • The Stark Realities that Surround Texas, printed at Wordrunner Chapbooks in Petaluma, California, is available through the author. Please send check or money order for $10 [includes S&H] to: Troy Casa, 26 Walnut Circle, Merrimack, NH. 03054.:
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April 26, 2009

Deidre Doyle and Mary Fosher chose Helix, a poem by poet Troy Casa, winner of the 2009 Merrimack Public Library Annual Poetry Contest.


Helix

 

 

Not what he meant to say.                                               Not even close.

 

I understand some men’s dilemmas:

chivalry and pestilence,

a helix bread in their sternum

after a thousand years.

 

I understand my dad’s metallic tongue  

that had to give reason 

to the studded-belt-bent-over-knee

fourth course of a three course meal.

 

And I can stomach this lineage of men

and their derelictions of duty:

their lying lover’s apology,

the stitches and welts.

 

But still,

it’s

not what he meant to say.                                                Not even close.

Join Troy Casa and other area poets for a special reading of poems by selected New Hampshire poets including Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon, Charles Simic, Robert Frost and many more.

Thursday, October 1, 2009
Merrimack Public Library
6:30pm

  

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  • "Casa's work has continued to impress me with its ability to weave together disjointed images and symbols, creating a cohesive and complex tapestry of emotions. The emotional space of the first line becomes an entryway with an unknown destination. It is his unpredictability with imagery that keeps me interested." --Alissa Hall: