Selected Poetry

Authors

  • Daniel Barshay Author

Keywords:

aphorism, visual poetry, time, sin, love, routine

Abstract

This group of six brief, typographically designed poems, several set as display images, offers aphorisms on animal need, the sweetness of dwindling time, sin and remorse, a lover’s pain, living in the present, and the comfort of routine.

Author Biography

  • Daniel Barshay

    Daniel Barshay worked as writer in alternative papers such as The Rag, Seed and The Realist. After a career in broadcasting, he lectured at hundreds of school and college settings across the US. Scripting for drama [I Walt Whitman] and film [MOVE: Confrontation in Philadelphia] and film, he is best known as the actor who played the Good Gray Poet in his “Walt Whitman Trilogy” as presented on major stages. The year 2018 will see “COINAGE” launched—a book of new phrases and words of the postwar years presented and described in a fresh format.

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Published

2016-09-28

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016): 10th Anniversary Issue

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Barshay, Daniel. “Selected Poetry”. The Mailer Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Sept. 2016, pp. 528–533, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/605.