Visions is about the worlds we inhabit in our dream lives. Each of the characters in Visions experiences a metamorphosis, epiphany, or reverie. Each traverses a dreamscape of his or her own ~ dreamscapes created by the characters’ minds. In the primary sequence of story-poems, a blind artist is driven to madness by dreams of light and color. In another sequence, a melancholy woman visits an art museum and awakens to a life of beauty, color, and sensuality. In yet another, an orphaned child finds enlightenment in a chapel illuminated by stained glass windows.
The story-poems in Visions blur the distinction between fiction and poetry. I don’t call them narrative poems since many of them are not narratives at all. Some are, but others are purely descriptive or impressionistic. And the stories they tell are too surreal and dreamlike to be considered traditional narratives. But they all tell stories in a poetic language that is aesthetically luxurious ~ a language that evokes the fantastic and mythical realms of dream, madness, and vision.
The story-poems in Visions blur the distinction between fiction and poetry. I don’t call them narrative poems since many of them are not narratives at all. Some are, but others are purely descriptive or impressionistic. And the stories they tell are too surreal and dreamlike to be considered traditional narratives. But they all tell stories in a poetic language that is aesthetically luxurious ~ a language that evokes the fantastic and mythical realms of dream, madness, and vision.
