Basic Training: A Selection of Poems

By Paul J Schaefer

In the lineage of James Merrill and Philip Larkin, the poems in Basic Training are presented in traditional, accessible forms for a broad audience. Paul Schaefer plays with form-sonnets, villanelles, ballads, blank verse-contrasting everyday experience with formal poetic structure. The final pages of the book contain notes illuminating the references and inspiration for a limited number of the poems. Most of Schaefer's poems are self-explanatory, centered on quotidian life, revealing fundamental truths that come from a life of doing the basics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1960090933
• ISBN13: 9781960090935
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing Company
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 7.0"