The Ocean Underground & Other Poems (Paperback)
In these poems, J.R. Barner explores the hiddenness of the everyday, the gradual toll secrets take, and the possibilities in between. These poems map the contours that exist when the lives of people, imagined and real (Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Foster, Marina Abramovic, and Dame Margaret Drabble, to name but a few) and real and imagined places, breathlessly circling the globe from the Arizona high desert to London, Paris, and Okinawa, are skewed, ever so slightly, to expose their more profound truths. Along the way, Barner invites us to see where we fit into these strange, new unfolding vistas.
In these poems, J.R. Barner explores the hiddenness of the everyday, the gradual toll secrets take, and the possibilities in between. These poems map the contours that exist when the lives of people, imagined and real (Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Foster, Marina Abramovic, and Dame Margaret Drabble, to name but a few) and real and imagined places, breathlessly circling the globe from the Arizona high desert to London, Paris, and Okinawa, are skewed, ever so slightly, to expose their more profound truths. Along the way, Barner invites us to see where we fit into these strange, new unfolding vistas.
In these poems, J.R. Barner explores the hiddenness of the everyday, the gradual toll secrets take, and the possibilities in between. These poems map the contours that exist when the lives of people, imagined and real (Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Foster, Marina Abramovic, and Dame Margaret Drabble, to name but a few) and real and imagined places, breathlessly circling the globe from the Arizona high desert to London, Paris, and Okinawa, are skewed, ever so slightly, to expose their more profound truths. Along the way, Barner invites us to see where we fit into these strange, new unfolding vistas.