IN THE YEAR OF OUR MAKING & UNMAKING

<h2><strong>SYNOPSIS</strong></h2><p>Frederick Speer's <em>IN THE YEAR OF OUR MAKING & UNMAKING</em> invites the reader into an experience as wide and as mystical as the blue sky. The search for love for the lover for the self for friends-the book makes what is universal incredibly individual and incredibly compelling like all good mystic expression and does so through a unique and innovative form that challenges the reader to stop ponder and discover its unique rhythm. There's thunder there's the sweet relief of gentle rain there's the Good making faces in the clouds. For a book inspired by the calendar of a year ITYOOM&U expresses a deep urge to create its own structure its own intuitive sense of time and inspires in readers just the same sweet realization of how to MAKE a life: if it is to mean / anything in the thrilling / dark it must be / my friends / that this desire / unloosed will be / you <em>you...</em></p><p> </p><h2><strong>ABOUT the AUTHOR</strong></h2><p><strong>Frederick Speers</strong> (he/him) is the author of <em>So Far Afield</em> (Nomadic Press) a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in <em>AGNI</em> (Online); <em>Crab Creek Review</em> winner of the 2020 poetry contest selected by Keetje Kuiper; <em>Diode Poetry Journal</em>; <em>Forklift</em> <em>Ohio</em>; <em>Impossible</em> <em>Archetype</em>; <em>Ofi</em> <em>Press</em> <em>Magazine</em>; <em>Tahoma</em> <em>Literary</em> <em>Review</em>; <em>Portland</em> <em>Review</em>; <em>The</em> <em>Straddler</em>; <em>Salamander</em> <em>Magazine</em>; and <em>Santa</em> <em>Fe</em> <em>Writers</em> <em>Project</em> <em>Quarterly</em>. He lives outside Denver Colorado with his husband and their three dogs.</p><p> </p><h2><br></h2>