Angel Unaware

Born in a writers' workshop in Ouray Colorado Angel Unaware presents human history as seen through the eyes of various personae. An angel whose assignment is to observe humanity writes from the viewpoint of a being who has no comprehension of what it is to be human giving a unique view to our history. Interspersed throughout are poems from the perspectives of various characters both Biblical and contemporary. Together the poems function to communicate faith.<p>Treating Biblical events with sincerity and respect the poems explore the unity and logicality of a coherent and consistent world view. Phrases and images recur throughout to weave poems and sections together in order to express the sublime. <p>As literary poetry (a/k/a academic poetry which is a rather stuffy-sounding term) the poems take various forms--sonnet haiku ballad tercet couplet and prose poem as well as other stanza variations and free verse forms. The uses of imagery paradox ambiguity patterns of sound and other devices serve to intensify the meaning and communication of experience. <p>From the introductory poems to the final ones the reader should find poems that enlighten delight and possibly even shock as characters such as Eve Bathsheba and a servant-girl in Nero's court are given voices to express their perception of events and circumstances. <p>As the poet Jeff Knorr writes When reading poetry whether we're an experienced reader or not one thing is certain: Poetry ought to move us [ . . . ] It might make us cry out loud over a page. It may move us to very simple and quiet contemplation of our own life [. . . ] And poetry may turn us inside out without warning. May you react to these poems with any or all of these responses and may you enjoy what you read. <br>