Publisher's Synopsis
In these poems, we find how the poet withdraws from outer experience to concentrate on the inner. These poems are full of amazing and deep imagination. It is evident that in all these poems there is present a rich style and a variety of melodies to attract the readers. It is quite remarkable that the poet has discarded the obsolete or worn-out phraseology. The poems are endowed with intense imagination, dreamy grace and subtle suggestion. All these poems become quite charming due to 'maturity, manifested in technique, of feeling in relation to thought'.
BIOJohn Sweet (b. 1968) is a believer in writing as catharsis, and in poetry as a reason for getting up in the morning. He has been publishing in the small press for 30 years. Among his collections are A DEAD MAN, EITHER WAY (Kung Fu Treachery Press), BASTARD FAITH (Scars Publications), a series of acclaimed limited-edition chapbooks from Kendra Steiner Editions, and THE CENTURY OF DREAMING MONSTERS (winner of the 2014 Lummox Poetry Prize). He lives in upstate New York. All pertinent facts about his life are buried somewhere in his writing.
