Drawing on memories fresh and long, on figments of inspiration and wishes for things better to come, and to cast light back into the past, this rich collection of 43 poems by mid-career poet William Hunter delves in such reminiscence scenes and hypotheticals as these:
First Heaven (earth-made)
Breaking into the Years (marriage)
Sphinx Call (in a modern age)
Bigger Love (greater license)
Alice, Eurydice (together below)
Virginity's Reprise (and revision)
Great Fields Behind Us (summed and projected)
Grasping Urges (of the Seven Deadly)
Family Stakes (status-seeking)
Peace, of a Few Swords (in a new garden)
New Innocence (fresh love)
White Boy's Vow (racism confronted)
Junker (frustrated youth, downcast)
Chiaroscuro Sight (art and brain storage)
Estimations of Size (defensiveness exposed)
Reach Out and Take It (even if it isn't there)
Of Beauty's Lamp (trimmed, steadier)
Twelve years in the writing,Great Fields Behind Us is a compilation of time-tested poems that strive to
fulfill the range of promises suggested by the poems' titles-- to deliver true visions in indelible renditions of each subject investigated, or mused upon.
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Great Fields Behind Us and Other Poems
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