Circulation

Beginning with its opening poem, 'The Invention of Time,' Ken Autrey's collection shows an attentiveness to the power of the past along with its riches and sorrows. The poems in CIRCULATION address the writer's upbringing, the influence of his parents, and in turn his aging, with accompanying bafflements and fulfillments. The poems often range far away from the domestic front but just as often reveal the natural marvels of his own backyard. Some of them address the challenge of employing wo...