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Life's Darkest Moments Examined in The Formal Impulse
Posted 05/28/2009
MADISON, Wis. –John Pidgeon uses the classic style of a sonnet to “address the darker side of life’s experiences—death, war, loneliness [and] disillusionment” in the
most recent publication from Parallel Press. In The Formal Impulse, Pidgeon states the following regarding life’s inevitable occurrences, “there are things we do not want to know, / that circumscribe the transcendental trust. / There are places we don’t want to go.” His contemplations about various experiences will leave the reader desiring more.
John Pidgeon is a product of the graduate writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His credits include Poetry, Poetry Daily, The Formalist, Rosebud, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Wisconsin Academy Review, and The Journal of Nietzsche Studies. He lives in Green Bay with his wife, Marianne, and their five children.
Parallel Press is an imprint of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries. For more information, please visit http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/chapbooks/poetry/.
Orders may be sent to:
The Parallel Press
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728 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-2600
A selection from his chapbook, The Formal Impulse:
Fair
It doesn’t seem quite fair,
this rife indifference.
But nature doesn’t care
one way or the other.
No need to take offense
if this seems less than fair.
No need to sit and stare.
What would be the sense
when nature doesn’t care?
And the point of despair?
What place has innocence
if nature isn’t fair?
Why bother to declare?
or use the future tense
when nature doesn’t care?
It’s neither here nor there.
We get what we dispense.
Why, then, is it unfair
if nature doesn’t care?
