Themes and forms range widely and freely in this collection of poems written between July 2018 and February 2020. There is caustic irony: "Of course we didn't like it when they started charging us to breathe" ("Breath"). There are humorous blues lyrics: "I used to be good looking, but now I only look" ("Used to Blues"). There are slices of life from moments with Leach's grandsons and his visits to art galleries and jazz shows in New York City. There are homemade surrealism, biblical allusion, and the poetry-blurb-mocking "Coming This Winter from Our Press." Richard Leach is an American poet and visual artist, whose visual art and secular poetry are shared online and in self-published books. He also writes Christian sacred poetry. His words for hymns and anthems have been set to music by many composers, and are widely published and sung. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut.
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