The Electrified Landscape: Collected Poems: 1990 - 2010

By William Luther White

The Electrified Landscape explores the arc of life's experiences, from childhood to youth to maturity, measured by moments of sudden insight, when the impact of a remembered event's deeper meaning, an afterthought taking flight, the searing consequence of something that was said or done, or a plunge into what was really happening-the emotional back story-are the lightning strikes that ground themselves in the reader's awareness.The metaphor of shock therapy, captured in the first poem, sets the tone for the remaining poems. "What if, in the end, we are all like shock therapy patients, thriving on isolated moments of illumination, brought on by sudden shocks to the system, separated by dark oceans of torpor where we spend our lives drifting, the negative spaces of our lives defining our waking, thinking moments?"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1460924061
• ISBN13: 9781460924068
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"