AwarenessAwareness

Awareness is the down-to-earth aspect of lofty, head-in-the-clouds Consciousness ... Both poets write out of the irreconcilable tension between preserving and fostering “Paradise”… and the possibility of crafting “Utopia,”...balancing economics and ecology… Katherine’s voice is that of a transcendentalist or a shaman; she is of the Garden and James Deahl is of the Forest. James tends to position his speaker out-of-doors in uncultivated spaces, where the speaker’s reflection juxtaposes natural processes and unnatural horrors…The delivered personage (here) knows: Poetry is Truth exceeding Political Science, Anthropology, and Sociology, and there ain’t no turning away