Hologram Books: "I of my own knowledge..."

I offer three volumes of poetry as free downloads, free with my best wishes. You are welcome to share them with others, provided that you do so in unaltered form, including copyright and URL found on the title pages.

The Marsh. Ten years we spent–my wife, our two children, our cats, and I–in a suburban house that backed onto a marsh. Although fifty miles from the Atlantic, it was a tidal marsh, and so it felt the influence of the sea. The form of this poetry is the cinquain, an American form of haiku verse comprising five lines of two, four, six, eight and two syllables respectively.

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Death and Resurrection comprises six sections, titled Aspirations; Despairs; Intentions; Mirrors and Omens; Wars and No Peace; and Death and Resurrection. This poetry is free-form, of many styles because written over a span of 40 years, beginning in the late 1960s when I was in my twenties.

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An Unsuspected Life comprises 180 cinquains arranged in 19 sections designed to print out as 53 standard 8.5” x 11” pages.

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