This collection spans over four decades of the author’s literary activity, and includes some items written in the early 1960s. The title poem states the dominant theme: the river flows in perpetuity, a witness to history: it often nourishes, it sometimes destroys – is often polluted, is sometimes purified. Humanity negotiates with it, sometimes benignly, sometimes malignly. There are natural disasters and man-made disasters, which face each other in this collection. There is a sense of global panorama, together with microscopic observations to illuminate the essence of the mundane, the apparently trivial. All the causes for despair are spelled out, but there is a final feeling of light and hope.
~By David Russell
(Image courtesy of David Russell)
This article is part of the MAHB Arts Community‘s “More About the Arts and the Anthropocene”. If you are an artist interested in sharing your thoughts and artwork, as it relates to the topic, please send a message to Michele Guieu, Eco-Artist and MAHB Arts Community coordinator: michele@mahbonline.org. Thank you. ~