Anam Cara and Selected Poems: A Chapbook

I recently released Anam Cara (a Latin phrase meaning "Soul Friend"). The book is a selectionof two sestinas, several Shakespearean sonnets written in traditional rhyme and meter usingcontemporary language, several free verse poems, four haiku, each of which demark fourchapters, one limerick, and one performance poemImagine a young man's awakening when he walks down a dark path to look at a lunareclipse, and when he walks away, he has a clear vision of true love. "Falling in Love withSelene" will take you down that dark path. In the sestina "Psalm of Sleep," the narratorattempts to conjure you into a joining the narrative as part of the living, breathing languagethat will seduce others to sleep-an exhilarating journey!. In "The Man Who Carried Me,"the author invites you to join his 3rd Great Grandfather (a mid-19th century missionarywith the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) on an arduous journey, pushing andpulling his wife on a handcart odyssey across the Great Plains. Lastly, in a series of 5ive poems,I tantalize the reader to experience God's preparation for dating, courtship, proposal, andfrom wedding day to post-marital bliss and beyond; these romantic interludes are a greatread for those in the throes of love! My poems carry a flair for the whimsical, but they areabout everyday events which everyone experiences.Thank you for looking at my Chapbook! Please pick up a copy for yourself and someoneyou love.

Pagina's: 44, Hardcover, Westbow Press