shards and dust: new & selected cherita

"shards and dust," a collection of new & selected cherita by Larry Kimmel, demonstrates this talented east/west fusionist's flair for a unified literature. The Cherita is a six-line poetic form deriving from the haiku and its related linked forms. Using only 35 of these brief, six-line poems, the poet has created a persona moving through a sort of nano-odyssey of the inner-mind, showing a wide range of emotion and experience -- from homestead memoirs to foreign and domestic travel -- arriving at a spiritual/artistic conclusion. Not necessarily in a strict time-oriented sequence, like memory itself, this fragmented stream of consciousness is one man's meditation on the human condition, done in a concise imagistic and heightened poetic voice.