In this collection, Collings offers verses - forty by true count - ranging in theme from inner strug-gles with serious deafness (and, worse, tinnitus) to the superficial, whipped-cream standards of the world. "White noise" becomes a comprehensive metaphor - we watch as perpetual static both destroys and builds; grants chances to withdraw, explore; conceals while purporting to disclose.
The poems touch on sanity and madness, private constructs and wider social pose, language and political correctness. Throughout, the poet challenges, invites, defies the typical, opts to stand and fight, and in doing so gives readers opportunity to contemplate and grow in self and in community.
The poems touch on sanity and madness, private constructs and wider social pose, language and political correctness. Throughout, the poet challenges, invites, defies the typical, opts to stand and fight, and in doing so gives readers opportunity to contemplate and grow in self and in community.
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