Greg Delanty

The poem “Loosestrife” is the introductory poem, an American sonnet, to a stricter sequence of sonnets titled “A Field Guide to People” and to my book No More Time, which explores, at the beginning of the 21st century, how humans and nature are connected, rather than separate and fragmented as portrayed at the beginning of the 20th  century. My poems also intimate that the rush for “the new” in modern industrial, scientific and artistic worlds disconnected us from the world before our modern technological world ran willy-nilly away with itself, not taking into account the good of that past world and how it was more in tune with the natural world. My poems seek to readjust the early 20th dictum of Ezra Pound and that rush “to make it new” in poetry by going back beyond the modern era in my sonnets, sonnets known as Diaspora sonnets, renewing rather than making new. This book is somewhat like the return of local farms and farmer’s markets in our society, to local growth and being connected in a more sustainable, traditional fashion within our community and with nature, seeing the magic reality of how we are all interconnected with our environment.