Mustering What's Left by Roger Aplon
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MUSTERING WHAT’S LEFT spans forty years of Roger Aplon’s career. The poetry collection is a historical investigation into Aplon’s transformation as a writer. It’s a evolution of spirit, style, and craft. Many of the early poems (especially – The Monologues) were cursed, celebrated, maligned &/but eventually acknowledged as ‘in the spirit of their time’. Aplon captures image and tenor via an impressionistic rendering of the color and character of the world. Each rendering plays with voice and tone, generating a spectrum of speakers from one volume to the next. From the monological explorations in Stiletto to the impressionistic responses to contemporary music in Improvisations the rhythms & images Aplon has chosen were meant to encourage the curious reader to respond viscerally – maybe touching a nerve that might otherwise remain innocent.
About the Book
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 978-1947021181
Publication: May 29, 2018
About the Book
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 978-1947021181
Publication: May 29, 2018
Praise for Roger Aplon
Why is it that after reading a poem of Roger Aplon’s something urges me to go and write in response? Not in response to his poetry, exactly, but in response to the feeling that I, too, have witnessed what must be spoken, or felt it deep in my belly, or buzzing at the back of my throat. This is what poetry can do, what Roger Aplon’s poetry does to me.
-- Judy Reeves
What a wonderful journey to read Mustering What’s Left, the selected and new poems of Roger Aplon, whose book came out last year through Unsolicited Press. And what a fun ride to hear the “different tone of ‘voice’ with each subsequent volume,” as he writes in the introduction, to see the way that voice evolves upon the page, with yet a consistent central eye travelling through it all…
-- Douglas Cole