WAKING DREAMS

This is the intimate pocket edition of WAKING DREAMS. It was mostly written throughout 2010 and the first half of 2011. Poetry is the process of dreaming in words. Like dreams, it often defies defies the boundaries of convention in language and speaks in metaphor, in images, in feelings that seem to surpass the constraints of logic. It touches an inner nerve and evokes vision, a state of mind that breaks with routine and our daily lives. It gives resonance and creates echoes of memory and places and spaces far removed from the common view of our daily existence and allows the imagination a path of escape.