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Thoughts from a Line at the DMV Paperback – September 26, 2019

by Jim Landwehr (Author)
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Jim Landwehr’s Thoughts From a Line at the DMV opens its heart to us, and we smile, smile some more, and occasionally slap our legs and laugh out loud. But we’re not chuckling at Jim’s “light” humor, but at the sparkling joy just beneath the surface of our lives, where the things we sometimes take too seriously reside. Whether it’s the loud loudness of a 16-year-old boy, life as a bingo chip person, or notions of moving to Brazil to stop the noise your teeth are making, this book will fill your soul with joy.

John L. Stanizzi, author of High Tide-Ebb Tide, Chants, Sundowning, and many other titles.

Many of Landwehr’s serious poems have a humorous side, and he sneaks some seriousness into the humorous ones while analyzing and poking some fun at parenting teens, reaching middle age, and the human condition. He is deft at alliteration and has mastered analogy. To wit: have you ever imagined the polar vortex as a “slumlord with a drinking problem,” or described someone’s voice as “a blend of bagpipes, fireworks and a locomotive pile up.”?Well, Jim has. Read this book.

Ed Werstein, author of A Tar Pit to Dye In

Landwehr’s DMV serves as symbol of suburban setbacks and the often backward tilt of what we call progress. The speakers in these poems swallow their frustration. The poet gives them voice.

Margaret Rozga, Wisconsin Poet Laureate, 2019-2020 author of four books including, Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems.

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    September 26, 2019
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 0.21 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1950462358
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1950462353
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kelsay Books (September 26, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 81 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1950462358
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1950462353
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.21 x 9 inches
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Jim has four memoirs, At the Lake, Cretin Boy, The Portland House: A '70s Memoir, and, Dirty Shirt: A Boundary Waters Memoir. Jim also has five poetry collections, Thoughts from a Line at the DMV, Genetically Speaking, Reciting from Memory, Written Life, and On a Road. His nonfiction stories have been published in Main Street Rag, The Sun, Story News, and others. His poetry has been featured in Rosebud Magazine, Portage Magazine, Blue Heron Review, and many others. Jim was the 2018-2019 poet laureate for the Village of Wales, Wisconsin. Jim is married, has two children, and lives and works in Waukesha, Wisconsin as a Land Information Systems Supervisor. For more on his writing, visit: https://sites.google.com/view/jimlandwehr/home

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  • Cristina M. R. Norcross
    5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic and honest! A wonderful mixture of humor and insight.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2019
    Jim Landwehr’s new poetry collection, Thoughts from a Line at the DMV (Kelsay Books, 2019), has a wonderful mixture of humorous observations and insightful reflections. Each poem has an authentic, honest, human voice. Many readers will connect with the daily events in life which bring us together, as fellow beings on an earthly journey. In this highly relatable collection of poems, we read about common, shared experiences and the lament, frustration, but also joy, felt in life. The speaker in these poems is resilient though and beckons us to fearlessly keep going on our shared quest. Waiting in line isn’t so bad, if you have good company and humor to guide you!

    —Cristina M. R. Norcross, Editor of Blue Heron Review; author of Beauty in the Broken Places, Amnesia and Awakenings, and others.
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  • Pat Judd
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brunette Hair
    Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2019
    As a person who loves poetry and is a sucker for the classics: “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘it might have been!“ and “A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the earth’s sweet flowing breast.” Or “The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one;” I find Landwehr’s Poems striking close to home. I feel almost a part of them and that I actually might know the girl with the brunette hair in STUDENT BODY. It takes me back to my own grade school years, for good and for bad. I recommend this book to my friends and family and to you also. I know you’ll enjoy it.
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