In Season's Dream, reviewing the journey

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25148583-in-season-s-dreamIn Season's Dream

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6648498.R_Tirrell_Leonard_Jr_R. Tirrell Leonard Jr.

   I am very happy with how this book came out, After I had all the pages together I hired an editor to help me work this into a highly polished book. I heeded advice I got for In The Murmuring Trees, and added breaks in the book for contemplation. I broke the book into four seasons, and each section is Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

     The poems of each season all relate to the season, and Tanya Gold did a wonderful job helping me to realize deeper threads of each piece, and reach in and give the reader something to chew on.

     My favorite poems are the longer Narrative ones, the best of which is "Fragment" which is the poem that closes the book.   Each poem quietly builds on feeling, some with humor some with quiet bits of realism, all with intense imagery.

   When I did finish this book finally, I was very happy with it. All in all, I am proud of how Season's came out. The settings of the poetry are Woburn, Ma. Salem, Ma and some of the coastlines and woods of New England.

  Next I hired Xlibris to publish this collection as a paperback, and I also hired Alexandra Artiano, to create the cover design for In Season's Dream. It has been a long journey, three years in the making, The rough draft was almost 100 pages, and I the final product is 80. It took a full year to write, a full year to edit and a few months to bring it out and publish.

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