Identity Papers

The prose poems in Identity Papers seek to construct a living bridge between the self and its shadow between the self and other and between present and past. They do so with a vulnerable faith working with Heidegger's dictum that all things must be allowed their time in darkness. Along the way their narrators meet a series of disturbing irresistible strangers. Identity Papers follows on from Makers of Empty Dreams (Shearsman 2014). It is the second volume in a trilogy of prose poem collections.