Standoff: Poems

I often feel as though I've entered
a standoff between what
happens around me&what's
going on inside--& this life
that goes on&on inside my head
goes on&on&on it seems
almost without me, as
it has since childhood . . .
--from "Standoff"

For three decades, David Rivard has written from deep within the skin of our times. With Standoff, he asks an essential question: In a world of noise, of global anxiety and media distraction, how can we speak to each other with honesty? These poems scan the shif...