Solace of the Aging Mare
Book Description
The poems in this collection range widely, in time and location, from spontaneous memories drawn from the poet's early childhood living by the sea of Japan, to a fuller series of cross-cultural observations, from his maturing---and finally aging---vision, after returning to a small Illinois town, surrounded by cornfields, pig-barns, and grazing horses, seventy miles west of Chicago. But wherever located, even in those concluding pieces set among the foothills of the poet's present life in rural Virginia, the unifying concept of the entire volume is the Far-Eastern belief that the aging process of mankind, and of all the "ten thousand" connected lives of the plants and animals around us, can be viewed as organic harmony: from wondrous to humorous---never to be feared.
About the Author
Dan Stryk is the author of 7 collections of poems and prose parables. Among other awards, he has held an NEA fellowship, and his work continues to appear in such journals as Commonweal, Shenandoah, Atlanta Review, Ploughshares, Witness, Harvard Review, Ontario Review, TriQuarterly, and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. He currently resides in Southwest Virginia.
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