A Black River A Dark Fall

The poems in A Black River a Dark Fall explore the moments when the imagination and the world outside ourselves overlap clash or infuse and inform each other. Although there are some surreal images or concepts these arent dream-poems but are based in discernible landscapes and often involve interactions with others whose imaginative lives conflict or complement the speakers. Setting and geography may reshape themselves to the speakers imaginative needs. Or conversely the setting may force the speaker to confront himself in some uncomfortable way. Like other first-person lyric or meditative poems these fictionalize autobiography to create a sense of immediacy. Most of them are written in a loose accentual meter but some are prose poems which may be read as a kind of journal entry freer in associations and less rhetorically astringent than verse.