Sorry for my delay in replying to you – I was suddenly hit with 2 PhDs and a Masters, all rough drafts awaiting my reading.
And then I received your collection of poetry, to be read Buddha-like, away from my supervising .
These are great poems, and so many, racing from the ancients (Greece, Rome), to the futuristic stars, to Tesla, to Vietnam, to the Aztecs, to Hendrix, to astrology and Tarot cards… your intelligence sweeps through time and space, from TS Eliot to Homer to Shakespeare to Coleridge to popular culture, and always there this beguiling poet with his doubts and hopes, his hard look at the world, in poem after poem this relentless imagination at work, teasing meaning out of a unimaginably complex world.
These are brilliant poems – often requiring many re-readings to feel the full impact of the ambiguous words, the complex visions.
Thank you for allowing me to read them, and congratulations on a fantastic collection of poems that make us think, and re-think.
(My favourite: Queen of the Khmer Rouge).
They deserve to be published as a collection.
Best wishes,
Philippe
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death pitched up to teach me how to divide by zero and to determine what his return on his investment would likely be . meanwhile, background microwave radiation made it difficult to hear him
and so I set my soul into freeze mode, so not a molecule might move
went cold cold cold in my outlook, philosophically speaking,
laissez faired every inclination as far as could possibly be
poems 2 die for 