Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version]

By Vincent St. Clare

'Easy Noumenon' is a short collection of the author's early poems and juvenilia, a debut [e]chapbook intended to turn heads and perhaps pry a few hearts. The author's poetry presents the reader with a slew of visionary images, as well as the themes of loss, disenfranchisement, wonderment and mysticism—numinous realities which often creep into the mundane world. Personal tragedies are contrasted with cosmic principles, and observations on the amusing minutia of life quickly dissolve into the larger mysteries of the self and the universe. A number of poems are symbolic, while others are minimalist and terse. Some are experimental.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vincent St. Clare
• Release date: Jan 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005946128

Vincent St. Clare

I’m a cognitive dissident: A wayfarer of the imagination. I’m an unconventional iconoclast, half-baked mystagogue, and catatonic amateur philosopher. I’ve got a heart on fire and a head screwed on backwards. I am an attempt at the everyman, philosophus and Fool, a lover of fate—though strung up by my fears—a boiler room hierophant, and “world on wheels”. I am an ever-transforming universalist seeking the interpenetration of the mundane and mystical. I try my hand at humility in the midst of self-promotion. I devote myself to the wind, neither coming nor going. That’s all there is at the end of the day.... I entered the calamity Anno Domini 1991. Since then I have become a writer in various senses—a poet, editor, blogger, essayist, author of short stories, small-time journalist, and would-be novelist, as well as a freelancer-for-hire.I am originally from Austin, Texas, and currently reside in the People’s Republic of Connecticut. (I tell people I’m a dislocated suburban cowboy.) We’ll see where life takes me from here.I humbly deem myself one lackadaisical author, couch-ridden adventurer, and clownish seeker of spiritual experience, as well as an armchair revolutionary and otherwise a bullshit aficionado. (Poop-chute extraordinaire, Seinfeld devotee, and so on.)(V.V.V.V.V. A bell ringing in the empty sky...)Visit my website at The Grand Tangent {thegrandtangent.com}.I am also the chief editor of The Drunken Llama {thedrunkenllama.com} online art and literary publication. (Submit today!)

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