Donald Brooks
ASIN: B00SNK1T0Y
Publisher: Donald M. Brooks
Pages: 169
At once simple yet profound, this collection of poetry dives deep into the contemplation of the meaning of existence. In particular, it's a journey through the past two years of the author's life as he studied philosophy and adjusted to life in what was a whole new world for him. Moving from Michigan after having studied theology academically and leisurely for over six years, the author began a new--albeit brief--chapter in his life by moving to Los Angeles to study philosophy at the Graduate level. In this transition he not only had to learn the many languages--philosophical, theological, social, political, existential--of this new world, but he had to figure out his own place in it. He had to continue to create himself and how he envisioned reality in the midst of a radically different world. This book is the poetical story of existential self-reflection of his time there and his ...