Of poets gods ghosts irritants and storytellers

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The three Ps of art: Poetry Painting and Photography are conjoined with essays in this artistic offering that deals with what it means to be a poet what constitute a poem art art forms content and the poet's vocation. It consists of 33 poems 40 paintings 7 essays 10 photographs and an artist statement. Borrowing from the statement by Robert Duncan that poetry comes from God and twisting it to mean that anything that comes from God and has a life of its own is a god the poet here becomes a god. He is a god in the form of Adam who is beholden to the earth. He knows there is no heaven for him so through poetry he creates a heaven for him and his readers using words images metaphors light lines diagrams circles space photography...</span></p>