Remnants of a Life: Poems

In this volume Duane L. Herrmann invites readers to follow him across the rolling plains and dark roads of Kansas encountering creatures wild tame or something in between. One of the beasts in the book the incognitum is long extinct. Most are more familiar - rabbits birds and even mosquitoes - but seen from new perspectives. The most frightening creatures in these poems though are human.Herrmann wrote some of the poems after his mothers death as a way to process that experience. Others were written to document and re-examine earlier incidents from that fraught relationship. They are shared here in hopes that those with similar experiences might be reassured they are not alone.Remnants of a Life explores the shadows we usually keep hidden as well as the beauty of the natural world and life on the plains. With a view of prairie grass and endless sky as its backdrop the book is ultimately hopeful: a testament to the power of words to help us survive difficulties and a reminder that spring always returns.