Fresh Earth

Covers a broad range of themes and styles but among two of its more prevalent concerns is the development of novel poetic techniques and a criticism of contemporary society.

75 pages. 10080 words. This is the 11th original poetry collection I've published (Excluding two compilation volumes then) It covers a broad range of themes and styles but among two of its more prevalent concerns is the development of novel poetic techniques and a criticism of contemporary society. Poems as different as the traditional romanticism of 'Deer Lake Park in Autumn' are juxtaposed with the linguistically challenging and anti-romantic 'Convex: The Mind of Turmoil'. The individual poems here will also benefit especially in this case from comparative readings with one another.

Sample Poem:

DILEMMAS OF INSOMNIA

The regime of night barricaded beyond glass
In vertical planes of outer limbo

As tranquility is scentless, textureless
Where sculptured power entombs without design

These oval tables, equidistant islands all,
Segregate the asocial strangers

Drooping over coffees like frozen waterfalls;
Lethargic too with their siphon eyes

Videos whose light cannot bleed into the uniform
Luminescence existing as if anvil

Upon which silent hearts are hammered
But, by in large, not for art or other soulful purpose

Only the conveyance of the hours continuing on
This brute being and solid unbecoming

And as empty as such midnight space can be, that
Comparing well to the void within