About the book
Quiet on the Outside… is my fourth collection of poems.
Softcover 5.5 x 8.5 in., 136 pages
Alarm Cat Press #ART42
ISBN: 9780990794950
July 2015
Smashwords e-book edition (ePub & Kindle)
ISBN: 9781311771681
July 2015
Amazon Kindle e-book edition (Kindle)
ASIN: B010OPV590
July 2015
What’s in the book
The contents are divided into six sections:
Autobiography
Sample poem: Sometimes you say it better than I ever could
Dreams, Fantasies, and Fictions
Sample poem: Unarmed #2
The Solar System Cycle An experiment—acrostic poems about the planets, with the lines originally written in reverse order.
Sample poem:
Saturn
Same thing every time:
after the event is long over
time erases memories
Under bright summer skies
reminiscence is pointless
Next to the statue, two gods talk
Observations
Sample poem: Islands are bodies of land surrounded on all sides by water
Whimsy
Sample poem: Sam-I-Am cannot be trusted
Short Forms
Sample poem: 6-inch alien
Places you can buy the book
Print edition
E-book editions
Smashwords (ePub & Kindle)
Barnes & Noble (ePub)
iTunes (ePub)
Amazon Kindle (Kindle)
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(Revived 1 August 2018)
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