These poems are the short, mercurial flights of a prehensile imagination. The voice changes a dozen times and ranges from a penny whistle to a howitzer, but remains accessible, excluding no one.

Writer Nancy Bo Flood encourages budding writers as well as old hands to follow John Lennon's advice and "Imagine" what could be.

Researchers at New York University and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics have discovered that the poems you can "see" in your imagination are the ones you love the most.

I like this depiction, and I think Richard Hugo would term this inner world of nonexistence the imagination. In his essay “The Triggering Town,” Hugo writes, “The imagination is a cynic.

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Her publisher, Lynx House Press, describes this collection as “poems of deep sentiment, and certain collisions of memory and imagination, poems that respect melancholy, and poems that deepen our ...