Poems, Volume VI, 1995–2025
A journey through darkness toward acceptance, resilience, and hope.
Meditations on the End explores endings in their many forms — the end of love, certainty, innocence, identity, and life itself. Spanning three decades of writing, the collection moves through grief, memory, existential doubt, and emotional recovery, asking how meaning can survive in the face of impermanence.
The volume opens with an extensive introductory essay on the nature of poetry and the lyrical “I” as literary persona. It blends shorter lyric poems with larger syllogies — including the nine-part “Ennealogy,” the Joyce Carol Oates–inspired “Fuga,” and sequences like “Masquerade,” “Lament,” and the title poem — closing with a sequence of sonnets, and drawing throughout on philosophy, psychology, music, and mythology.
For readers of philosophical poetry, existential literature, and reflective contemporary verse — though it descends into darkness, the collection ultimately argues that endings are rarely final.
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ISBN Paperback: 978-1-968289-11-9
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