Böcker av William Winslow

In this second collection of poetry William Winslow distills often overlooked moments in life into the 17 syllables of traditional Hailu. Many of his observations are traditional as well - addressing the seasons and the daily encounters with the natural world which we frequently fail to acknowledge. ¿Those who seek out poetry in all its varied forms and those who appreciate all things Japanese will enjoy this collection - especially so if they also have a fondness for dogs or the mountains of western North Carolina.

A lawyer who's losing his job. A keeker who's losing his mind. A courtier who's lost his colony.Kay Pettaway is a troubled psychic entrepreneur who just wants to find a wife and take his remote-view company public before he cycles back into rehab. But his clients have other priorities-the war on drugs, mineral rights on the coastal plain, a 500-year-old conspiracy-and aren't reluctant to subvert Kay's gifts for their own deadly ends. In a story that accelerates from the board rooms of Charlotte, to the mountains of the Blue Ridge, to the wild Outer Banks, we trace his path across North Carolina, a singular corner of the South, where enduring histories, landscapes and languages face down a bewitching aesthetic and technological future.

IF DOGS COULD READ (and I believe they can - just not in the way we translate the printed word) then this collection should appeal to those who care about dogs: their behaviors, their importance in our lives, and their noble quality which most of us (including the author) strive unsuccessfully to attain. For those of us not fixated upon dogs, you will find the majority of poems addressing family and death of family, the Vietnam War, a thankfully brief selection of limericks, vintage North Carolina postcards in a Haiku format, and other mostly personal observations, to include a neighborhood suicide, growing older, Autumn, and rain.