EMPTY: Poems 2020-2023

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EMPTY: Poems 2020-2023

Author: GTimothy Gordon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9788119654161
Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2024
Price: $15

Covid-19 as metaphor, mortal, and moral presence informs occasional playful, sometimes paradoxical, but mostly serious, Zen-like gestures and texture in Empty by localizing person and place to a specific culture and a specific time. The speaker’s ambivalent relationship to this American Southwest borderland and Nature-at-large is epitomized by the Chihuahuan desert’s commercialism and eventual urbanization as desert and wildlife are displaced by condo, strip mall, ubiquitous car wash, his conflict with aging, mortality, and postmodern identity by confronting past and present ghosts through otherwordly and borderland tropes—"shadows and dreams,” “signs and wonders”––among rubble, goathead and sandbur, coyote and corbie, beauty beneath the banality and chaos of overlooked things of this world within the context of persistent global pandemics.

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GTimothy Gordon
	Gordon holds degrees in Literature and Philosophy, Creative Writing, a doctorate in Comparative Languages & Literatures, awarded NEA and NEH Fellowships for teaching and scholarship, artist residencies, poetry prizes, and presentations of critical and creative papers in juried journals and readings at global symposia. EVERYTHING SPEAKING CHINESE received RiverStone Press Poetry Prize (AZ), NIGHT COMPANY Ms. nominated for NEA Western States’ Book Awards, and several Pushcarts. Previous work appears in AGNI, American Literary R, Cincinnati PR, Kansas Q, Louisville R, Mississippi R, New York Q, Phoebe, RHINO, Sonora R, Texas Observer, among others. BLUE BUSINESS is in-progress. Recognized in Poets & Writers, Inc. (NY), Maine Society of Poets, Ohio Writers’ Directory, he divides lives among the Chihuahuan Desert Southwest Organ Mountains and Asia.