| Crying Wolf is a collection of 39 poems which use images of embodiment to explore the relations of internal and external psychic landscapes. The poems vary from short lyrics written in free verse to a series of dramatic monologues that investigate the tensions between popular culture and traditional myth. Using everyday subjects and experience as its major thematic principle, the collection attempts to establish the mortification of the individual which is inherent in the practices of daily ritual and habit. Formal variations between one-line stanzas, staggered couplets, tercets, quatrains, and varying length stanzas provide stylistic texture throughout the manuscript to signal the disjuncture between the internal self in relation to the external world in which this first person persona operates. |
