This new collection of 116 poems reveals the insight, wit and wisdom of one of Southern California's most widely published and respected poets. A fixture in the poetry landscape of San Diego for two decades, JON WESICK shows in this effort why audiences have been smiling, laughing and cringing with him for such a long time.
Reviews:
"Words of Power, Dances of Freedom fearlessly mocks and castigates hypocrisy with rollicking humor and a deft command of irony."
– Roger Aplon, author of It's Only TV
Editor/publisher, Waymark: A Poetry Magazine
"In these poems we meet Einstein, Yeats, Cesare Borgia, Odysseus. We can't predict what they will say or do. All we know is that we are lucky to have Jon Wesick."
– Oriana Ivy, author of Winter Snow
"Jon Wesick's words march across the page with the force of a bulldozer and fly through your ears with the energy of a hummingbird."
– Chris Vannoy, author of A Strange Summer
Winner of the 2015 San Diego Book Award for poetry
"With an extraordinary wit Jon Wesick brings down the walls of familiarity exposing vulnerabilities of human emotion in unexpected places."
– Silva Merjanian, author of Rumor
"Classic Jon Wesick – smart, humorous, insightful, and at times heart-breaking."
– Steve McDonald, author of Golden Fish Dark Pond