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And all that's implied

Poet: Christopher William Purdom
Date: February, 2006
ISBN: 978-0-9797088-1-7
Price: $6.00 (purchase from the poet)

The poet's second annual volume opens in pain and bounces wildly between depression and joy through the pangs of spiritual rebirth. Twenty-four short poems about our relationships with God, nature, ourselves, and each other, including:

Not Really A Book Review

Poets build relationships
from words construct emotions
in syllables validate
life with letters need lingual
confirmation however
inadequate to express
gazed conspiracies of joy



corporate geese

Poet: Christopher William Purdom
Date: January, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9797088-7-9
Price: $6.00 (purchase from the poet)

The poet continues his ascent into linguistic insanity with this fifth annual volume of twenty-four short poems about our relationships with God, nature, ourselves, and each other.



dreamtime horizon

Poet: Christopher William Purdom
Date: January, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9797088-9-3
Price: $6.00 (purchase from the poet)

This sixth volume of Mr. Purdom's critically ignored formal confessional language flarf performance art epic combines plain English with found and invented words in syntactically ambiguous and grammatically inappropriate configurations of incomprehensible sentimental angst-ridden romantic religiosity inexplicably divided into two twelve-poem chapters titled "Misinterpretations" and "San Francisco." Not recommended.



shades of grey

Poet: Christopher William Purdom
Date: June, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-9797088-2-4
Price: $6.00 (purchase from the poet)
Reviews: Like a koan

The poet's third annual volume of twenty-four short poems about our relationships with God, nature, ourselves and each other, including:

Sushi

bear in the stream cross legged
on the mat shoes left behind
in the rapture of dinner's
companion and the long walk
after human memories
shaped, shaping, carefully rolled
the table does not divide



Six Years Inside My Brain

Poet: Christopher William Purdom
Date: January, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9797088-8-6
Price: $13.95 (purchase from the poet)

Volumes I to VI of the poet's continued ascent into linguistic insanity, including all one-hundred-forty-four poems from Sounds like it ought to mean something, And all that's implied, shades of grey, too many chairs on the grass green hill, corporate geese. and dreamtime horizon.



Sounds like it ought to mean something

Poet: Christopher William Purdom
Date: January, 2005
ISBN: 978-0-9797088-0-0
Price: $6.00 (purchase from the poet)

The first published volume of Christopher William Purdom's poetry. Twenty-four short poems about our relationships with God, nature, ourselves, and each other, including:

Flashpoint

Love no singularity
Of physical intent is
God spiritually intense in
All the lives I Am leads us
Disrupting rigid structures
We impose upon ourselves
And the glorious chaos



too many chairs on the grass green hill

Poet: Christopher William Purdom
Date: January, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9797088-5-5
Price: $6.00 (purchase from the poet)
Reviews: Sorry

The poet's fourth annual volume of twenty-four short poems about our relationships with God, nature, ourselves, and each other may leave you even more confused than the first three volumes.



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