"These poems were composed between 2005 and 2021, consisting of haiku, and ballad-type pieces and less structured works; some I think of as landscape paintings, like Sunset Splashes, having less narrative focus but capturing a scene and its mood. Those poems with composition dates have retained them here for interested readers.... Despite the temptation to lay them out in thematic or chronological order, the poetry is grouped so as to juxtapose the more upbeat pieces and the more melancholy ones, mixing some shorter ones between longer works, and blending old and new pieces.... Many relate events and experiences, hallucinatory as well as objectively real, having a specific story behind them. Those stories would not be poetry, however, and constitute a very different beast than what you’re holding."
Jim Pavliczek grew up in Port Townsend, WA. He lived in boats on Alaska’s southeastern coast during his early teens, returning to Port Townsend to graduate high school. He has studied theater in Edinburgh, Scotland with the Royal Lyceum Youth Theater, and preformed at the first National Theater Festival in Stirling, Scotland in 2005. He has worked in landscaping, restaurants, and Port Townsend’s last video store. He has lived most of his life in Port Townsend, WA and resides there to this day. Always an avid reader, he has dabbled with writing off and on for years. This is his first book.
