Zen By Default: The Poetry of Marques Vickers

California artist Marques Vickers' second poetic edition "Zen By Default" establishes a sustained interior dialogue between the poet and his ongoing life evolution living along the American Pacific Coast. His 300+ concise works address the ongoing themes of displacement and relocation and the challenge of cultivating and sustaining relationships in the midst of upheaval.

Vickers examines his spectator role with regard to his own life:

i am a third party
to my own life
spectator of my existence
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