The Mundo of the Mundane

These poems are part of a larger whole gleaned from some 25 years of journal recordings. In the first three or four years of serious writing I mostly wrote little hokku-like poems on little scrap pieces of paper I kept in my pockets and later recorded in my journals--desert breaths sighs groans with sexual-geographical overtones--jotted down while teaching school on a ranch in Arizona hitch-hiking all over the Southwest and trekking deep into the wilderness. Then the first longer poems were actually juxtapositions of these little pieces--montages compositions jazz riffs and solos.<p> It is important to note that none of these poems were composed in any rational deliberate manner--never having attempted write a conventional poem with conventional rhyme meter etc. The things I write down are the spontaneous recordings of images events and ideas that make up the substance of daily experience hence the title of this book.<p> ...full of vivid imagery and imaginative language (Arlene Rivera Flume Press)<p>The worlds you create unravel with great beauty! (Nancy Goldfarb 2002 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize.)<p>...astounding and gorgeous.... I like the earth-connected imagery...the sense of time and place (Diane Frank Blue Light Press)<p>I like the contemplative tone the abundance of natural imagery... (Tom C. Hunley Steel Toe Books)<p>We enjoyed the details...and the rambling easy style...which fits the subject matter well (Elise M. McHugh West End Press)