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First Aid

10/17/2023

Over a Cereal Bowl in New Note Poetry Journal Winter 2022 and In First Aid due out summer 2023 by Wipf and Stock and on sale at Amazon, B&N, and Ingram.

Footholds available via Amazon

10/17/2023

The aptness of phrase and the verbal magic of the poems included in the poetry collection is remarkably impressive. The important characteristic of these poems is the poet’s ecstasy of feelings. The poignant intensity of this poetry collection awes and impresses the readers. The poems abound with very effective and beautiful images.

The style of the poet is colloquial and conversational. All poems are technically accomplished. The poet shows a remarkable quality of creating fact and feeling into impressive words. The power and precision of the diction used in these poems is quite admirable.

"Fairy Tale Ending?" from Footholds published by Cyberwit, India fall 2023.

10/16/2023

Goldie Locks Zoners

10/16/2023

"Goldie Locks Zoners," From Footholds published by Cyberwit (India) 2023.

"Echoes Only" from Footholds published by Cyberwit (India) fall 2023.

8/28/2023

"Footloose" in Footholds published by Cyberwit (India) fall 2023.

8/28/2023

As with First Aid, Footholds bridges the romantic, modern, and postmodern to something with vision perhaps.

8/28/2023

In these poems, I am attempting to plumb the emotional aspects of being Homo sapiens: Moods and attitudes. They also remain an attempt to slow the reader down, pulling the reader out of the humdrum world of platitude and cliché of everyday language imbued with cynicism. Each contains cascading effect of little epiphanies. From beginning to the end, they provide a world of thought while engaging in play as a child to expose relativism and contemporary cynicism and foster vision for tomorrow. Schiller’s play drive may best describe the style. Meta-modernism may best describe its heart.

The multiverse is neoliberalism, the postmodern. Fredric Jameson tells us that what postmodernism in the arts gives us is the logic (the key) to the postmodern culture and that is all. The postmodern artists are waiting for change, not remembering that they may instigate the change. That is where metamodern artists pick up the relay baton and show a possible way to change or a way to a vision of the change beginning with the heart, interiority, and emotion.

Footholds, published by Cyberwit (India) September 2023.

8/28/2023

First Aid, published by Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock, 2023.

8/28/2023

In these poems, I am attempting to plumb the emotional aspects of being Homo sapiens: Moods and attitudes. They also remain an attempt to slow the reader down, pulling the reader out of the humdrum world of platitude and cliché of everyday language imbued with cynicism. Each contains cascading effect of little epiphanies. From beginning to the end, they provide a world of thought while engaging in play as a child to expose relativism and contemporary cynicism and foster vision for tomorrow. Schiller’s play drive may best describe the style. Meta-modernism may best describe its heart.

The multiverse is neoliberalism, the postmodern. Fredric Jameson tells us that what postmodernism in the arts gives us is the logic (the key) to the postmodern culture and that is all. The postmodern artists are waiting for change, not remembering that they may instigate the change. That is where metamodern artists pick up the relay baton and show a possible way to change or a way to a vision of the change beginning with the heart, interiority, and emotion.

"An Acknowledgement" in First Aid, July 2023.

8/28/2023

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