Requiem For The Faintly Deceased: A Brief Offering of Poems

By J W Forbes

The product of four years' effort, through its incarnations, taking on countless faces and forms. Here, is what remains, hand-selected by the poet, in which he defines how he wishes to be seen. In turns, comic, tragic, unsettling, and sublime. Inspired by the lexical imagery of Wallace Stevens, the chiseling craft of Ezra Pound, the soft paradox of W.H. Auden, and the winding ambition of T.S. Eliot, Forbes wrestles through his schizoaffective disorder, his alcoholism, his spiritual conflicts, and his social angst. The result is the brief and orchestral Requiem For the Faintly Deceased. Here is an American poet's artistic debut re-envisioned and unveiled.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1091693862
• ISBN13: 9781091693869
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"