Afterimages: or: Oceans, Oracles, and Odysseys (Coming Full Circle) - Softcover

Rimell, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1326588923 ISBN 13: 9781326588922

Publisher: Lulu.com, 2025

Synopsis

A man sits on a Cretan beach, staring out to sea, musing on the trackways of his life, thoughts moving timelessly as waves break upon the warm sands. “…another wave rolls its crash to un its fold / another thought stirs, rises to crescendo, sings out, falls…” This is ‘Afterimages’, simultaneously a deeply self-referential and abstracted text exploring the Janus-like perspectives of middle age, an elegiac reverie of all the people the poet used to be as he has wandered from one life to another, and a creative plunging into fragments of Greek mythology. “…fifty is midlife and I often feel like dying, / or like I am dying falling through time…” A text filled with questions that bubble up when a forward-looking Queer, ADHD artist and poet comes to a point where time starts to draw him backwards, where he sighs with the movements of the sea, where he dreams the murmuring closures of Glaucos drowning in the honey pot at Knossos. “…this too is mystes, an unwinding of sorts, / into which you must immolate: sacrifice yourself / into the sweetness…”

About this title

About the Author

Bruce Rimell is an internationally-exhibited visual artist and outsider poet from Leeds-Bradford in the UK. Previous publications include 'Echoes For Aphrodite', shortlisted for the 2024 Poetry Book Awards, and a chapbook 'Deo Mithrae' available through The Braag publishing. Forthcoming works include 'Vallum Aelium', a poetic travelogue to Hadrian's Wall, and 'Queeritudes', a small-scale series of narrative poems exploring the beauty of gay sexualities. You can discover his art and poetry at www.biroz.net, or search 'Bruce Rimell Xibalba Books'

Edition details

• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1326588923
• ISBN 13: 9781326588922
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102