Watching Ourselves
Paperback 94 pages English Feb 25, 2017
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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
- Publisher:
- Unsolicited Press
- Publication Date:
- Feb 25, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 94 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0998087270
- ISBN-13:
- 9780998087276