Extraordinarily creative and engaging writings. . .
Loosely literary with generally over-the-top humor. . .
Surprising and offbeat observations. . .
Exploring E W Shaffer's poetry is a marvelous stroll through contemporary life.
—Mollee Kruger, author of The Swift Seasons and The Cobbler's Last.
"Common discourse changes
constantly. People used to say You’re Welcome in response to Thank You but now the most popular reply, if any, is No Problem, which is the same thing you hear a lot in restaurants. If you happen to be interviewed like on TV though, instead of No Prob or Yes, you should definitely say Absolutely. . . . ."
"Big dayglow signs that point every which way along the roads here are sprouting up like weeds. I expect to see one soon pointing to the sky telling drivers to go straight ahead maybe above the word STRAIGHT. . . ."
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Tables and Chairs - Poems and Writings
110 pages
10.1535595833
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Shaffer takes the raw materials of everyday life—traffic lights, old barns, soft pillows, half-pint ivy plants, blue glass—and fashions wry commentary. A man drills for water and strikes oil. Granite boulders dance the fox-trot. Factory smokestacks morph into gun-barrels. Sometimes wistful, sometimes curmudgeonly, in Shaffer’s world nothing is as it seems. You can expect the unexpected here..
—W. Luther Jett, author of Not Quite: Poems Written in Search of My Father
Brooms and Shovels - Poems and Writings
110 pages
ISBN 9781536172097
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In a vivid work that is part autobiography and part memoir Shaffer writes a family portrait laced with comic hyperbole and humor that exposes the idiosyncrasies of rural life growing up in a small mid-Appalachian community. Weaving in and out of accounts of his own experiences as a young rural kid and part-time farm boy, he familiarizes us with his mother and father, his extended family and himself.
Eddie and I - Father And Son Adventures In The 1950s
180 pages
ISBN 9781535291040
$15.00
Mike Shaffer Millennial Drawings describes a unique collection of hundreds of works, one among several groups and styles of large-scale paintings, sculpture and other art-based projects he has created over the length of his long career. This accounting focuses on his informal and sketchy figurative drawings primarily in pencil and other hard mediums and includes portraiture, digital images and experimental work. A brief introduction glances at the history of drawing as a discipline and the practice of drawing in the digital age. A master craftsman, designer and accomplished artist, Shaffer operates out of his studio near Washington, DC.
