Afterword is a long poem in fragments, with some long lines of poetry folded over, as it were, onto the next line(s) of the page, as in Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg and Allen Ginsberg.
It is a long poem in fragments, but it might also be seen as a poem sequence: of memories and meditations, dreams and (for want of a better word) visions. It's increasingly invaded by images of destruction and desolation: of nature, of animals, of humankind; with those images prefigured by the opening passages.
At the end of the text, the negative emphasis is "turned" upon and against itself into the language of transition.
It's a poem that's concerned with limits and the possible surpassing or exceeding of limits.
- ISBN13 9781848618046
- Publish Date 18 February 2022
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Shearsman Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 106
- Language English