Diminishment

This striking collection of poems, focused on the book's title, is separated into four sections -- Terminations, Authorities, Romantics, and Growths. Within these zones, from childhood to death, stark images and tense rhythms of human injury and decay -- from ugly social orders, the pain of false ideals, cruelty of others, illness and aging -- are delivered without apology to the reader. Stone has been called by some a psychologist's poet, and this book shows why that is true. This collection should speak well to all who like poetry that focuses on the human condition, and may be of particular interest to students, educators, professionals and patients intrigued by the connection between literature and psychology. To view the Table of Contents, please click on that photo.

Marc Stone, born and bred in Brooklyn (now living abroad in Miami), has had poetry or short fiction published in Faultline Journal of Art & Literature, Fourteen Hills, Main Street Rag, Midway Journal, Pudding Magazine, The Awakenings Review and other journals and magazines. Several of his poems have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize.