Makings
Edition: Third Edition
Publisher: Casa Miller, an imprint of New Spirit Books
Published: 2026
Place of publication: Tucson, Arizona
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780915402045
Description: Makings explores the poetry of thought, the borderland where poetry meets untrammeled philosophy. The first section consists of aphorisms and other literary fragments. In the second section, symbols of reality, and of the sounds of our language, are inscribed on a map of the world. Section three, composed in theme-and-variations form, celebrates the self-creative personality, a humanist ideal. Section four presents brief timelines of reality and the imagination. Sections five and six are collage compositions concerning Henry David Thoreau. In sections seven and eight, a picture poem and a metrical poem conclude the book.