Idiomatic Anomalies

As in his previous works in <I>Idiomatic Anomalies: The Dissident Passions of a Malcontent</I> street poet Richard D. Kydd Jr. has produced a work of unusual breadth and sensitivity. As usual his topics range widely. Politics is a common theme; in <I>Politically - In - Reject</I> he shows the world as apparently at his beck and call through the media then shatters that illusion with an example of censorship. His trademark cynical almost bitter condemnation of hypocrisy is blunt in <I>Curse of Greed</I> although he can make the same statement more subtly as in <I>A Writer's Block</I>. His work is many-layered and touches the reader on several levels. In the apparently playful simplistic <I>Furr Ball</I> his description of a sleeping cat's dreams he triggers thoughts of much larger issues. One of his strengths is this ability to use a mundane almost trivial incident to lead the reader to a much wider vision.</p><p>As always there are poems with a strong spiritual bent. <I>Alone to Itself</I> speaks of the silent inner voice of the soul and <I>Illusionary Madness</I> and <I>A Quiet Whisper</I> speak of the activities of the spirit.</p><p>This volume contains some of Kydd's most mature poems.</p>