Synopses & Reviews
Review
“I was deeply taken by David Shumate’s
The Floating Bridge. There is none better working now at this very difficult genre, the prose poem.”
—Jim Harrison
Review
"Shumate's collection consists of over 50 gems . . . each one loaded with the living essence that hovers just beyond rationality's gate. Shumate is a master of this forthright form [prose poetry]. His book is a key to the room where dreams are stored."
--Nuvo
Review
"David Shumate vanquishes once and for all the notion that the prose poem is somehow inherently 'not a real poem.' This collection exhibits a sustained level of innate lyricism and imaginism rarely seen even in conventional lyric free verse. Unfailingly, the little prose jewels in
The Floating Bridge exhibit the most fundamental property of fine poems: each whole is many times greater than the sum of its parts."
--Cider Press Review