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.