Coming to Grips with White Knuckles

The collection assembles free-verse poems that shift between gritty urban scenes and lyrical natural imagery, blending street-level detail, memory, and dreamlike travel. Many pieces register city life and nightlife, domestic interiors, and fragments of personal reminiscence, while others invoke sea voyages, mythic landscapes, and contemplations of desire, loss, and poetic creation. Language ranges from colloquial observation to dense, image-driven phrasing, often deploying surreal or satirical gestures to examine the role of the poet and the craft of writing. The result is a varied poetic sequence balancing immediacy with reflective undertones.