Singularity: Poems

by Greg Glazner

"[Glazner] manages to locate a redemptive grace in this world while writing from the very thick of it."― Santa Fe New Mexican Greg Glazner's lyrical and meditative poems address the burdens, demands, and joys of life at the end of the twentieth century. Their subjects range from a self-portrait distorted by nightfall to a consideration of the place of consciousness in a universe created out of an explosion. These elegant, well-crafted poems depict the spiritual desolation of American life and act as beacons of hope in the quest for sincerity and depth.

Genres: Poetry

94 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[C. Varn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Glazner's meditative and lyrical poems consist of how ideas and desoluation can be made concrete from "words made of smoke," and he sees in the average undergrad "almost invisible implosion of suffering." The singularity is ominous but Glaznar always wishes to find the lyric truths in the dross of the end of the last century. A fascinating book in some ways about "a world that can never let us be."

[Daniel Klawitter · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Fear, polished to a metallic sheen,
can lodge in consciousness like a miraculous
shrapnel, little incidents of heat
where an unproductive earnestness was once
supposed to be. If you can tolerate it
long enough, it will feed your family."