The final "s" in the poem is turned into the sound of a gust of wind or a gentle wave. The highest voice has most of the text, while the lower voices sing "surrender" in its original and increasingly abridged forms. The last line (which, by the way, sounds very biblical!) is spoken. The style of the music was suggested both by medieval polyphony and Tibetan Buddhist chant.
This collection of poetry addresses the nature of time, reflections on the natural world, the difficulty of loss,
contemporary social issues and gratitude for life.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
This book represents a thirty-day period of my poetry journal. Each poem addresses
the dominant thoughts occupying my mind during the early morning hours of a given
day.
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