Asidelines

I'Ve Always Loved Words As Much For Their Sound As Their Sense Being Read To Reading Theater: The Spoken Word Represented In Action. At College I Minored In English Lit. Learning About Poetry Academically. In Adulthood My Main Focus Aside From Family Was Music As A Violinist. Not Until My Seventh Decade Did The 'Poetic Bug Bite' Likely Abetted By My 'Musical Ear'. At First Writing In The Modernist Free-Verse Style Seemed 'Unformed' Chopped-Up Prose: Words Phrases Scattered Vertically Down The Page. Where Was The Artistry? Creative Challenge? Words Within A Title Suggests My Initial 'Gameplan': Words In The Text Formed Of Letters Contained In Its Title. Asidelines Contains A Few Rhymed Poems Such As Narratives And Ballads Also A Few In Classic Forms And Meters. But Most Are Structured By Sound And Rhythm. The Book Is Arranged According To Subject Categories: Ava Ballads Biography Commentary General Local History.