Simon and Aaron – ‘On My Way’

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Breather Editions (paperback, 2018)

“These poems stand their ground and fight back, uncompromising in their gifted bricolage. High-ceilinged, kaleidoscopic, tumbling down the page.”
— Merrill Gilfillan
​”​Aaron Simon combines Zen-like non-constraint with the feel of an urbane metaphysic: heavy/light but not heavy-lite. Vividly, and with precise diction, his observations challenge any one-to-one realism, yielding something that falls together wholly by indirection. In the gems of On My Way, the mental life weaves easily and with wit into a fragmentary logic, unsentimental yet moving: “I know about survival/ Spring Forward, Fall Back.​”​
— John Godfrey

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