Description

American History’s subjects are the nature of America and its peoples that meditates on shape of the country leaving nothing out with the damage starting at home and most locals. From alcoholism, drugs, political strife, war, racism, industrial greed, genocide and a communion with the environmental surroundings. Historically, covers Washington to the present times, though mostly since Hiroshima. While also including natural surroundings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the beauty of the Great Basin, the Dakotas, the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Sangre de Cristo ranges. Landscape as home. History and Literary characters are woven through the fabric of these poems that “wag a finger” at our times. Though in nature the poems find an uneasy peace. Traditional poems of haiku, tanka, villanelle, and free verse with words covering the page in abstract juxtapositions as have been called “quirky spacing” but is the mindset and the page location of words written.