These poems arrived over a number of years and so are quite varied. Some are responses to what poet Thomas McGrath called America's 'false imagination,' its largely sanitized view of its own history. Others posit hope for another kind of world. There are also poems that look at the conundrum of our limited consciousness in a universe that presents us with one certain fact: the mystery of departure of everything we know. Despite these harsh realities, Dale Jacobson firmly believe that the fundamental purpose of poetry is to bring us together into a shared communal consciousness"-- Provided by publisher.
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