Inventions and Variations

<p class=ql-align-justify>Multi-award-winning poet artist and historian WD Frank gathers a selection of previously published work into one volume with the addition of ten new poems inspired by a deep dive into the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Enhancing the poems are samples of Frank's paintings in watercolor acrylic and oil several of which were created especially for this collection.</p><p></p><p>-----------</p><p></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify>WD Frank's poems are not bound by time. They take you to liminal spaces through spirals of seasons from Europe to Seattle to the shrub-steppe to the afterlife. Frank sweeps centuries brings us ancient voices myth war-and wildflowers nighthawks and symphonies. A buttermilk moon. Wherever he takes you Frank's words breathe and shimmer on the page.</p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-Keely Murphy Pickerel award-winning poet author of <em>This Steady Place</em></strong></p><p></p><p>The luminous poems in <em>Inventions and Variations</em> remind us of the fragility of things asking us to reflect on what we've loved what we've lost and where we might find solace. You will be moved by the scale beauty weave and musings of WD Frank's poems. The way he dances here with words time and ideas is transporting.</p><p><strong>-Terry Martin award-winning poet author of <em>The Light You Find </em></strong></p><p></p>