Burton Carlson

Dragonfly Burton Carlson

All the poems in Dragonfly have been previously published, most in the Sixties and early Seventies. They all come from that period in his life when he was experimenting with language and form, learning what it means to be married and have children, and making the transition from student to employee. Several of these poems he considers to be among his most elegant. The images are drawn from nature, literature, current events, and daily life. Each poem, as a result, is a distilled story that if you are willing to make the effort you can begin to reconstruct.