Everyday Objects: Collected Poems, 1987-2012

by Mark David Major

Everyday Objects is the definitive collection of the poems written by Mark David Major (author of Mars Rising and The Persistence of Memory and Other Plays) over a 25-year period from 1987 to 2012. The book brings together many previously published poems including beloved ones such as "Pale Bloom" and "Empty Words" and more provocative offerings like "God's Feast" and "Purchased Inertia." Everyday Objects collects these together with a number of never-before-seen poems representing underground experiments in free verse, extended haiku structures, and what the author describes as "antithesis poetry," whereby a new poem or additional stanzas are composed using antonyms, contrasting terms, phrases and/or clauses to generate a (sometimes radically) different interpretation on the subject. Everyday Objects represents a poet at the height of his powers in crafting language to create new meanings and poetic interpretations.

270 pages, Paperback

First published September 12, 2013

About the author

Dr. Mark David Major, AICP, CNU-a is an author, artist, entrepreneur, architect and urban planner with extensive experience in academia, business, real estate, urban planning, and design in the USA and Europe. He is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Abu Dhabi University in the UAE. He is the author and playwright of several fiction and non-fiction titles including: Mars Rising (science fiction), The Persistence of Memory and Other Plays (theatre), Everyday Objects: Collected Poems, 1987-2012 (poetry), An Infinitesimal Abundance of Color and An Excessive Abundance of Curls (children’s books with Layce Boswell).

He has been published in several different venues, including academia, professional journals, newspapers, and poetry magazines for more than twenty years. His poem ‘Purchased Inertia’ appeared in the February 2011 issue of The View From Here Magazine. His poems also appeared in the anthologies On the Wings of Pegasus, Patterns of Life, Visions, Whispers, and the German e-journal, Poems Niederngasse. He is a member of the Poetry Society of America and the Association of Independent Authors.