Gravities: Insights and Emotions in Verse, Second Edition (Levities and Gravities, Second Edition, #2)

They say poetry doesn't have to rhyme — but it can. And it can do a lot more, as well. Shaped by the author's love of patterns, informed by his expertise in linguistics, and rooted in deep emotion, this volume is a collection of formal poems with a serious tone. By turns inspiring, meditative, joyful, and despondent, the poems in this collection showcase the power of meter, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, dialect combination, and other methods of form manipulation to help us grapple with th...