Watching Ourselves (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780998087276)

Watching Ourselves is a collection of poems gathered in groups: how we watch ourselves grow up, observe others, love, look back; how we watch ourselves come to grief, age, receive, and reflect.We watch ourselves, of course, with difficulty and incompleteness, tasking the poems to strive for a measure of clarity-however partial-as they, like us, struggle to know themselves.The collection title is not Watching Myself, for the poems are concerned with not only the poet but with a range-a complex-of people and circumstances. The title could as easily have been Watching Each Other.While the poems are all written in free verse, their poetic approaches vary: couplets, tercets, quatrains, poems with slashes for punctuation, poems with slanted line lengths, short lyric poems, long narrative poems: whatever the poem itself seemed to call for, as each poem was begun because something happened that the poet didn't understand but needed to. Watching Ourselves is a collection of poems addressing, and written out of, bewilderment.

Author: Mark Belair
ISBN-10: 0998087270
ISBN-13: 9780998087276
Publisher: Unsolicited Press
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2017
Pages: 94
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.23d