In A World Once Known Al Zolynas observes, responds to, and even celebrates the details of ordinary daily life.
Perhaps that\'s why Allen Ginsberg found Zolynas\' earlier volume, Under Ideal Conditions , immediately clear and lucid, and why Czeslaw Milosz praised him for his clear and precise poems and for his unmistakable individual voice..
No complexifying modernist poet, Zolynas opts for a shameless accessibility in his art.
Whether sitting outside a café, remembering a boyhood incident, interacting with an insect, speculating about Shakespeare\'s Hamlet, or musing about writing and philosophy, the poems essentially celebrate the sheer wonder of existence, the mystery of being.
In A World Once Known Al Zolynas observes, responds to, and even celebrates the details of ordinary daily life