Report from the Sea of Moisture

A Stunning new collection from Stuart Jay Silverman author of The Complete Lost Poems: A Selection I think of poetry as a creative art not primarily a form of expression which reeks too much of pathos the self-aggrandizing narcissism of our fearful times. Of course the subjective enters into every poem ever composed. A sentient and thoughtful being does the creating. When the poem gets away from the purely confessional it has a chance to expand its poets experiential horizons and in consequence that of the empathetic reader. The result is what I call a subsistent reality in effect an extension of the possible world whether naturalistic surrealistic or fantastic. It links to the plastic arts of painting and sculpture and perhaps to architecture and music by providing altered perspectives. new realities or quasi-realities for the immensely complex mind which is the essential person. Stuart Jay Silverman