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Book synopsis

The poems in Collateral aren't blind to the sometimes subtle sometimes graphic suffering that happens as we move from first breath through illness--deprivation-- isolation. It's hard to imagine this when there are sufficient resources to experience love and happiness and good health but deep in our bodies I believe that witnessing suffering is the beginning of empathy. Then what-do we put up lives as collateral--risk everything to be of service--think of Doctors Without Borders--or turn our backs and walk away--or--as most of us do--build our house somewhere between action and indifference.

These poems are vessels with my life inside them. The revolutionary and the sleepwalker-the witness and the victim--merged. If I'm lucky perhaps readers will find themselves in these poems as well.

Book details

• Full title: Collateral
• Author: Gary Lemons
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110
• EAN: 9781957799513
• ISBN: 195779951X
• ID: 52275480
• Publisher: Moontide Press
• Weight: 160 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. May 2026

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