| A Concept of Right Now Contributor(s): Walker, J. Scott (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1950730247 ISBN-13: 9781950730247 Publisher: Unsolicited Press OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places |
| Physical Information: 0.14" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.19 lbs) 60 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Paradox. In everyday American life, it is a thing to be avoided. Truly difficult intellectual tasks, such as attempting to understand and reconcile hypocrisy, contradiction, equivocation, moral relativism and the like seems altogether too taxing or pointless to those participating in mainstream culture today. Instant gratification has replaced true engagement. Self-centeredness has replaced self-awareness. Technology has replaced meaningful interaction.
The poems in this collection attempt to confront the paradoxes of our age. In a voice full of both awe and anguish, the speaker searches through the physical and spiritual worlds for solid ground on which to stake a claim on meaning. In a world where everyone's attention is being pulled in hundreds of dispirit directions, this collection searches for what binds us, what exists in the space between space, and a way to name the truth found there. |
Contributor Bio(s): Walker, J. Scott: - J. Scott Walker teaches English and Creative Writing in Greensboro, NC. When he's not doing that, he writes songs, plays, and poetry. A graduate of Appalachian State University and the University of Alaska, his poems have appeared in Town Creek Poetry, Big River Poetry, Cold Mountain Review, and Cirque. The emphasis on place in his work is the natural product of having lived in ten US states including both Carolinas, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Alaska. He has also travelled extensively outside of the US both in a physical sense and also in his imagination. |
