The Quiet Fields

By William Boden

Written from the heart, the poems of William Boden offer a new take on our outer and inner worlds. This collection shines new light on mens issues, art, and music, and as his insights of solitude and the natural world weave through the book, their impressions are sure to linger. Here youll encounter poetrys fresh voice. It speaks to us all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Dec 6, 2012
• ISBN: 9781452562636

William Boden

William Boden was born in Queens, New York, in 1959 and spent his formative years in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. In 2000, he earned his BA in creative writing from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, and he is currently an MFA candidate in the low-residency program of Queens University, Charlotte, North Carolina. The four chapbooks he published include Guest of Honor and Deep Rain. William is a visual artist and has had many exhibits, some that merged his acrylic paintings and photography with the work of other local poets. His artwork has moved into many private collections, and Boden’s ekphrastic poetry reflects his love for the arts. William and his wife, Theresa, make their home in Largo, Florida, and they like to spend time in the Black Mountain/Asheville area of North Carolina.

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Copyright © 2012 William Boden

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ISBN: 978-1-4525-6262-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4525-6263-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012920938

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Balboa Press rev. date: 12/04/2012

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

The River

The Light of the Fire

That Time of Day

January 27th

The Cliffs of Insanity

Dream Map

There is a gold light in certain old paintings

Billiards

Love

Class Reunion

Vision (a found poem)

After Mexico

Des Knaben Wunderhorn

The Path

Mosaic

The Sound of Deep Rain

Very Early Morning

Inner Passages

May 7, 2003

(…under the wet grass,)

Transformed Morning

Timelessness

Dichterische Freiheit

An Odd Longing

Spring Sustenance

The Notebooks

Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I at the Museum

Bare Branches

Waking Up

The Last Ghost Dance

After Depression

On the Dark Granite Slab

The events of any day,

Lights, Please

This is the one,

Oh No, There He Is Again!