Library of Eden

This book is an unusual and entertaining collection of original poems by spoken word poet Duncan Shields. These poems are pretty much a potpourri of short poems running from the humorous to the ridiculous and then doubling back into love poems and sci fi poems. Always entertaining, Shields poetic works are mind expanding, esoteric, concrete, and surreal. These poems move through the landscaped of the normal, the unique, and the ubiquitous, to the absurd laced with humor, and various states of the human condition and emotions. The ideas and images provoked are far-flung and sometimes uncomfortably explorative but all part and partial to the samplings from the dinner table of life. Some of these poems will have you laughing out loud and some would bring a tear to a glass eye. These pages offer a smorgasbord for the mind and an assortment of sweets for the digestion of the meals sampled. There are tiny moments of thought provoking inner inquisition and there are glimpses of an inner sanctum that backons the read back again and again. Thoroughly and entertaining and mind expanding collection of short po-e-story poems. Shields paints his mindscapes ever so eloquently and easily onto the pages in such a way that they sprint softly sometimes and rambunctiously other times but always they pique the sometimes unpiqued deeper recesses of the psyche.