Flying Over Sonny Liston By Gary Short
Gary Short’s Flying Over Sonny Liston, published in 1996 by the University of Nevada Press, and awarded that years Western States Book Award for Poetry, is a work in three sections. They are, in order, From The Ground, Fallen Light, and Belief of Sky, and they ostensibly represent the stages of adolescence, early adulthood, and middle age. This sets the tone for a book, which more than anything is about the progression of life and the gradual acceptance of the process of time, (as David Bowie sang, “Time may change me, but I can’t change time.”)