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Walk with Strangers (Poems 1, a Collection of Contemporary Modern Poetry by a Welsh Poet)
Stephen Williams
出版
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
, 2015-07
主題
Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN
1514668556
9781514668559
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_GHnsgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Walk With Strangers
by Stephen Williams
Poetry of light rising from the abyss
Walk With Strangers
is a collection of contemporary poetry by Welsh author and poet, Stephen Williams.
The subject matter of these poems is diverse, thought-provoking and frequently controversial. The collection includes poetry of place, hope and death, gay love and sex, mental health and manic depression, death, old age and illness, politics, poverty and homelessness. Sometimes satiric, often gritty and biting, the work is never gratuitous.
Writing in a contemporary form, Williams has also published his own interpretations of the traditional poetic forms of the Villanelle, Haiku, Rondeau and Sonnet.
Williams's voice is rarely integrated, always standing outside of a social group or society itself, watching and remembering but never becoming a part of it.
Most days we only talk in silence
, he says,
like strangers wearing coats, about to leave...
All the while, though, we feel he would prefer to be
Licking Jack Daniels from your mouth
or meeting with
a well-hung boy
in some shop but he remains on the outside, waiting for an invitation that never comes, remembering only what might have been as he sees
the truth told and the cold coffee going stale on the counter
.
This is a provocative and varied single-author collection of poetry.