Rotary Devotion was written during a long period witnessing the
collapse of democracy and the rise of fascism in the United States.
The poems attempt to redeem time by surrendering to imagination,
trusting the necessity of that process. As process, imagination
changes as it transforms object and subject. The instability
motivates the language within poems and between them. No persona is
immune to this uncertainty, any attachment can be sacrificed.
Likewise, any word might be summoned to the moment shaped by the
grammar enough to cohere. In this engagement, the guiding concerns
are sensation of the world and how best to love, the former to stay
oriented, the latter to justify the effort. Body engages world on
behalf of imagination which regards the two with suspicion but
interest. However reluctantly, the body lives in the world under
constant threat, the sensation of uniqueness in the individual a
consciousness of the collective body's crisis as threat to its own
survival. What is imagination's responsibility? How can poems be
made? Writing poems, fixing words, is a kind of death the poems
themselves consider. Imagination is the lively necessary. It moves
through parts of the world and absorbs what nurtures it-the
stubborn genius of homo erectus, remembered light in a photograph,
music found and made, poem after poem considered, eternal weather,
imagining history as it happens, what matters and what dies to
other forms of matter. These poems offer intimate companionship to
the reader's own voice, twin at times, antagonist at others, always
a necessary and loving duet sharing genius and awe beyond personal
identity which imagination knows as a barrier to love as much as an
enticement. Irony is all the solace some poems offer, other times
it allows a deeper vision of unity that begins where poems end.
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