Advantages: lyrical, spiritual, honest poetry Disadvantages: couldn't make sense of a few; use of parenthesis
...a laboratory. I could (and will) reread A Chorus Of Voices in a week or year and suddenly what I didn't understand the first time, and there are many poems, will leap out at me with exciting meaning.
Still I'll try to share my impressions and favorite images of the poetry that Kurt wrote in the late 1990s for the defunct Themestream.com, some previously published in The Thirteen Apostles and poetry journals in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. There are three sections: First Poems, Sonnets and Non-conclusions in 95 pages.
To start out we should take note of his title poem that provides the framing for the rest of his artistry. It is also printed on the back of the book to underscore its importance and I'll offer it to you now:
A chorus of voices,
Straining to sing songs
That birds in distant forests
Have taught to...
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