Poems from the Past & Future

Donald Gardner Stacy developed his aesthetic for poetry and literary fiction over the course of fifty years. The element of time's passage comes into play frequently in this small collection as a thematic structure within several of these poems, none of them very long. In some cases, the initial composition of the poem disclosed its own form. At other times, the poem in question eschews form altogether, relying entirely on the sound of the concatenation of the individual words which compose it.

About the Author

Having lived in Kunming, Yunnan, People's Republic of China, for a total of three and a half years with his wife, Li Zhongli, Mr. Stacy had undergone what amounted to a transformative experience stretching over that same period, which began in 2008 while the presidential campaign was still underway, Barack Obama was yet to be elected president over the alternative choice of John McCain.