Birth Certificate: Selected Poems - Paperback

by John Valentine (Author)

Birth and being mark the poems in this second collection by philosopher John Valentine, who meditates on the nature of humanity and existence.

Each verse is a metaphysical musing, an inquiry without an "I" and a dialogue in silence.

Contemplating our ever-entwined virtues and vices, Birth Certificate dwells on the divine and tragic, the spirited and frail, to create an image of the ideal -- an ephemeral mandala offering order amid "displacement in the sea of beings" -- only to be swept away with the breath and water of time.