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Month: February 2015

Words Working for Their Keep: Dean Young’s First Course In Turbulence

First Course in Turbulence, Dean Young’s fourth book of poems, displays a virtuosity of image simultaneously with an economy of words.  He suggests meanings, sets tone, foreshadows later parts of poems, and sometimes does so all at once. In “The…

New Book In Progress: Sisyphus

My next book of poems is titled Sisyphus  and I am drafting it on wattpad.  Hurray!  Or insanity! I can’t decide which descriptor is more applicable — drafting ,in public, a book that includes poems already completed as well as new…

Ebook is up with new cover

My book Stars Crawl Out From Their Caves has been republished on Amazon with a new cover — none of the inside content has been changed.  So if you already have a copy, no need to buy another. if you…

John Muir & Poetry Found in the World

I’ve been reading John Muir’s account of his 1879 trip to Alaska, which he wrote based on his journals and notes from that trip and then published in 1915.  As the small ship on which he sailed was passing among…