Unfounded - Paperback

by Diane Kistner (Editor), Michael Trocchia (Author)

Divided into three parts, Michael Trocchia's debut collection of verse is a lyric study on the forms of fate, a haunting discourse on the linguistic fractures between one's self and substance, and a set of shimmering images and meditations on the constant "guesswork" of understanding the world within us and beyond. The immediacy and sonic play of these poems are met by what is their gravity of thought and, in some, their philosophic irony. Attending to both the magic and logic of our language, Trocchia's poetry draws the two together, renewing the wonder of existence with greater clarity.

Author Biography

Michael Trocchia is the author of THE FATHERLANDS, a series of thirty-three prose poems and short fictions (Monkey Puzzle Press, 2014). His poems and prose have appeared in journals such as Mid-American Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Open Letters Monthly, Camera Obscura Journal, and Prick of the Spindle. He grew up on Long Island and now lives in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, where he teaches philosophy at James Madison University and works in the university's library.