The Crooked Mirror: Selected Poems by Stephen Evans is a collection of verse by poet, playwright, and author Stephen Evans.
From the Prologue:
So here’s what I think.
A poem is a linguistic unity. It has no narrative flow. It has no time. It has no tempo, no pauses. It is the opposite of music. It coalesces in the mind as the last element is read or heard; only then does it exist, like a quantum state collapsing into reality from the interaction of a reader.
The text of a poem is a single word broken up into elements separated by lines and spaces. It is a delivery mechanism, and a flawed one. But it’s what we have. And it is precious. Because a poem is as close as we can get to truth, given the undeveloped state of our languages. And minds, for that matter.
A few in this book may qualify as poems.
Any would be cause for celebration.
Poetry is where we’re going.
At least I hope so.
ISBN: 978-1953725509
Available: December 6, 2024
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Excerpt:
On Brighton Beach
On Brighton Beach, the tourists say,
the ice cream vendors come this way,
and come and go,
and come and go,
on Brighton Beach,
the tourists know.
On Brighton Beach, the bathers say,
the shifting waves are quick and gay,
and come and go,
and come and go,
On Brighton Beach,
the bathers know.
On Brighton Beach, I’ve never heard
the sleeping sand to say a word.
But come and go,
and come and go,
the dreaming sand
will never know.
