Allegories of Love and Disaster

A startling sequence of love poems, remarkable for their unabashed simplicity of emotion and intent, their guileless wisdom.

A triangle of love that uses images and sounds to understand itself – like a baroque variation, complete with canons and reprise elements – Allegories of Love and Disaster can be read in any direction or entered at any point. It is a progression of themes and images which calls into question the idea of progression in life. The naiveté, pain, and romanticism of a youth are challenged, recaptured, celebrated and mourned by the man he grew into. The outcome is a balance sheet of loss and gain, innocence and experience, ephemera and constancy, as the poet learns to keep faith with what was and what is.

Poetry; 1993 • 6 x 9 inches • PB 103 pages • 978-1-55096-069-3