TRIANGULATION:
POEMS IN THREE PLACES (NEW YORK CITY, MAINE, NAVAJOLAND): 32 page chapbook
Triangulation comprises poems from three places: city (New York), state (Maine) and nation (Navajoland). Like a navigator, I assume that one (at least) of these three points in a large very irregular triangle will be unknown to the reader, and that this point can be defined partly in relation to the other two –and partly, of course, through description. I also hope that triangulation is a useful technique for taking the measure, both topographically and socio-politically, of this our united and not so united country. Formally, these twenty-some poems are also wide ranging. Many are accentual-syllabic with medium length lines, but some are prose poems, and others, “skinny” poems, short lines hopping down the page. Some feature more sound than sense, some have no rhyme, many rhyme on and off, and there are even a few that just jingle. In short, it may be impossible to pigeonhole Triangulation.
CONTENTS:
CITY: NEW YORK 3-12
STATE: MAINE 13-23
NATION: NAVAJO 24-32
FOR SAMPLES LINK TO POEMS IN THE NAVAJO (AND OTHER) MANNER(S)