Doug May is a member of the neurodivergent community. He has worked a lot of different jobs, everything from production typing to answering the phone, delivering flowers, emptying bedpans, mopping floors, stocking display shelves and performing covers of Charlie Daniels and The Rolling Stones. His poetry has appeared in Breath And Shadow, Wordgathering, Raw Art Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cathexis Northwest, and many other poetry publications.
Doug May writes intense, acute poems both in regular metre and end-rhyme and in free verse. His language is by turns casual and conversational and richly imagistic. Many of these poems surprise with the sudden dexterous swerve of a simile. Realistic surfaces suddenly fracture, opening into something else. He says of this volume: These poems were written over a period of 40 years. No chronological order is implied.This book is not intended to come after the others. Which are not finished. Though maybe completed.It may or may not be the most recent in time. Or the final item in a series.It may even last. But last is not given. Listen to the music of Morton Feldman for additional possibilities....
Absolutely pure, honest, illuminating poems that reach the depths of experience and transcend the sky. Doug May conveys the quivering surprise of truth in sharply crafted language, sharing a narrative that morphs the mind and heart. These poems elevate the spirit to a profound empathy. I will learn from them forever. Sheila E. Murphy Poet
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