Frederic Wildfang

The Mundo of the Mundane: from Journals, 1959-1984 Frederic Wildfang

These poems are part of a larger whole, gleaned from some 25 years of journal recordings. In the first three or four years of "serious" writing, I mostly wrote little hokku-like poems on little scrap pieces of paper I kept in my pockets and later recorded in my journals-desert breaths, sighs, groans with sexual-geographical overtones-jotted down while teaching school on a ranch in Arizona, hitch-hiking all over the Southwest, and trekking deep into the wilderness. Then, the first longer poems were actually juxtapositions of these little pieces-montages, compositions, jazz riffs and solos. It is important to note that none of these poems were composed in any rational, deliberate manner-never having attempted write a "conventional" poem with conventional rhyme, meter, etc. The things I write down are the spontaneous recordings of images, events, and ideas that make up the substance of daily experience, hence the title of this book. " full of vivid imagery and imaginative language" (Arlene Rivera, Flume Press)"The worlds you create unravel with great beauty!" (Nancy Goldfarb, 2002 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize.)" astounding and gorgeous I like the earth-connected imagery the sense of time and place" (Diane Frank, Blue Light Press)"I like the contemplative tone, the abundance of natural imagery " (Tom C. Hunley, Steel Toe Books)"We enjoyed the details and the rambling, easy style which fits the subject matter well" (Elise M. McHugh, West End Press)