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Poems for Loners
In his fourth enigmatic offering, Douglas Richardson employs poems, lyrics, proverbs, letters, and a diary to illuminate the dark lives of loners.
100 pages, Paperback
First published August 23, 2010
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March 2, 2018
There are almost four, maybe five, distinct continuing stories within this slim volume of poetry. They are intertwined with each other from the loner poems to the Notes from the Graveyard Shift poems to the Barney Murdoch poems to the others.
Some are sad, some are ironic, and some are uplifting. Frankly, they are all over the place, going left, right, up, down, and sideways, yet they are connected. Most are rather short, just one or two lines, yet like haiku, they can say so much.
One particular line in poem 91 (yes, the poems ARE all numbered.) struck me.
"Being good is more rebellious than being bad because it disobeys instinct." (page 70)
Some are sad, some are ironic, and some are uplifting. Frankly, they are all over the place, going left, right, up, down, and sideways, yet they are connected. Most are rather short, just one or two lines, yet like haiku, they can say so much.
One particular line in poem 91 (yes, the poems ARE all numbered.) struck me.
"Being good is more rebellious than being bad because it disobeys instinct." (page 70)
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