Mustering What's Left

MUSTERING WHATS LEFT spans forty years of Roger Aplons career. The poetry collection is a historical investigation into Aplons transformation as a writer. Its a evolution of spirit style and craft. Many of the early poems (especially - The Monologues) were cursed celebrated maligned &/but eventually acknowledged as in the spirit of their time. Aplon captures image and tenor via an impressionistic rendering of the color and character of the world. Each rendering plays with voice and tone generating a spectrum of speakers from one volume to the next. From the monological explorations in Stiletto to the impressionistic responses to contemporary music in Improvisations the rhythms & images Aplon has chosen were meant to encourage the curious reader to respond viscerally - maybe touching a nerve that might otherwise remain innocent.