Analog pop

Abstract

"Analog Pop is a book of poetry concerning male personas and their interactions with interior and exterior influences and stimuli along a continuum of experiences. Each poem looks at the formation of character and how that character is projected across time in a variety of situations. As humans we receive our initial programming on the home front and carry this foundation of learned behaviors into each future crossing we make. Analog Pop as an organizing trope divides the book into four sections of soda pops from the past, some that have lasted and some that have not. Each soda pop refers specifically to the unifying theme of each section. These poems speak to the experiences across these periods of change as society also moves from analog to digital technology and human interaction. The book begins with an expansive, futuristic universe-view and moves inward toward a specific, analog personal-view. Analog Pop treats the struggle of the individual in society attempting to negotiate these interchanges. The result is a record of lyrics with the needle occasionally hitting a scratch on the record which sounds a pop"--Leaf iii