A Truce With Fantasy

by Bill Mayer

Bill Mayer is a master of the plain style. His writing moves at the pace of breathing, of walking, of slow, caressive speech to build a poetry richly faithful to our sensate and physical life, as here in one of his many poems of camping in the desert: "Feeling the expected fear rise up in me as the light fades / from the last clouds to the west. Looking east / to the deep purple, and black outlines of mountains. / The wind quieting. Letting the fear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692445595
• ISBN13: 9780692445594
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Aldrich Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"