The best of 25 years of my Poetry, in 3 sections -- long, lyrical poems, to miniatures...
SLEEPERS IN TRANSLATION:
My belief is that 'The Purpose of Art is to Awaken'. I try to remember this, and reached a new level with this project. I lived near San Carlos, the Apache reservation, and received a poem there....My job is to listen.
The book is 6 X 9, perfect bound, attractive, 125 pages, professional cover; with many new poems to clearly show where I am trying to go with my art.
Excerpt
from 'AN EVENING IN SEPTEMBER
I sit in the fading sunlight, scribbling to no one's advantage, unless in some strange way my own, seeking to love this moment without knowledge or naming -- like a man in silent prayer, straddling the edge of a beautiful and profound book, the edge of a world, thinking, not thinking, waiting for the voices to wane.
This is and isn't our world.
Shadows grow among the stately pines,
and I remember other days.
Yesterday I was a boy. And although it may be that his love is the hope of all my tomorrows, today let me
be a man. . .
Tired of being less than I am, I rise, stretching, and gaze across
the far horizon -- the constellations flowing upon the mirror
of my consciousness.
A quarter mile away happy laughter
pierces my regard. . .
One of the finest poems I have read in many years. Sincere and touching without being sentimental. Clearly one of our best poets currently writing. Looking for to reading his new novel...
William Samuels, PHD.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
