Slow Living

A look at passing the time. Whereas, the second half, Dear/Later is about forward momentum. About what's next? Both halves are 'implemental' poetry. A constant movement without looking back and yet still getting caught up in the same whirlwind of cycles. A work about spirals. We can't go back but sometimes we get close enough to look back and reexamine what occurred. “To enter the world of Kenyatta JP Garcia's SLOW LIVING is to enter another dimension, to spend time in a mind in full possession of lyric intensity, knowledge of "high" and "low" culture, smarts of both the quick and painful kind. It's a book full of all the right questions, evidence of a restless mind bent on finding the least satisfying answers to the most difficult of questions. There's humor here as well, evidence of a knowing voice that doesn't kowtow to anyone's sacred gods. Give in to SLOW LIVING and give in to a voice that's engaged, surprising, deft and capacious.” —Poet, Allison Joseph. Author of the book, Multitudes.