Too Late (for) Poems:  Late Later Poems           2022-2024

 Wade Dowin’s third collection, his follow-up to  "Living Mortal: Later Poems."

 This book looks and reads like a poet’s notebook, displaying a range of styles.

 Mindfully aware of the transience of our moments, as in life the whole becomes    

 more than its parts.  But the parts make the journey.

       “  It was there then ,  sitting by the lake ,

          pencil and pad in the sun ,

         listening to the waves and the gulls crying  overhead ,

         that it was revealed .

         That the center does  hold ,  or it can ,

         only shifting in time and space

         becoming  larger or smaller

         in what its circle encompasses . “

      "From "One-Eleven West Too Pleasant Avenue”

Skin By Skin's Own Prisms Burnt: The Compleat Werks 

   Poetry & Other Stuff        c.1965 - c.1986

  ( This volume might better be called  " The Compleat Early  Werks."  )

 The poetry, lyrics and other "stuff" finally presented in this volume represent a sort of literary

 archaeology, a time capsule from the late 1960's through the 70's. 

 After sitting nearly 40 to 50 plus years on a closet shelf these "moments" resonate still, their

 essence not frozen in that time.  From the profane to the sublime, the absurd to the sensual,

 the perspective is wryly jaundiced yet remains resolutely humane.

 Many of the pieces slap your consciousness in a way similar to a koan.  You will likely find both

 delights and affronts.  So be it.  

 You may have to think and there will be some laughs, whether silly or rueful.  That is enough.

                                         ADVISORY: NOT NICE       Contains adult language and concepts.

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