Newly Not Eternal

Equal parts elegy and ode <i>Newly Not Eternal</i> explores the startling suffering and sentiment implicit in human mortality. At the heart of this collection a son has died on the cusp of his first breath but the book's stakes are larger and more universal than a single silent foreshortened life. Ranging from personal lyrics to monologues in persona from triolets to a modified crown of sonnets from surreal fantasy to natural landscape George David Clark's poems sing of the brutality of time and the beauty that transcends it.