Songs from the Astral Plane

"Songs from the Astral Plane" is sixty-five poems of love, life, isolation, change, and loss by the author of "Love Songs" and "Scar Tissue". The poems are written with humor, optimism, and a sense of fantastic realism. This is Bob McAfee's eighth book of poetry in the past eight years.

"Songs from the Astral Plane" is sixty-five poems of love, life, isolation, change, and loss by the author of "Love Songs" and "Scar Tissue". The poems are written with humor, optimism, and a sense of fantastic realism. This is Bob McAfee's eighth book of poetry in the past eight years. Section I (Aubade Hotel) has poems on coming of age (Graduation Day), sexuality (Ode to the Condom), desire (Dear Lois), loneliness (Iceberg and Soul), aging (Aubade Hotel), and change (Puppy Love). Section II (Clowns on Shore Leave) consists of poems written with humor and wildly different formats and narrative points of view (Speed Dating, The Doughboy's Desire, Solving the Problems of the World). Section III (Katie Pauses) is comprised of mostly longer poems with not much in common except that they didn't fit into Section I or II. Examples include a modern fairy tale (Katie Pauses), a classical poem inspired by Tennyson (The Miller's Daughter), and a poem about America inspired by Walt Whitman (Song of the West).

Bob McAfee is a retired software consultant who lives with his wife near Boston. For many years he has conducted a Wednesday night poetry workshop on Zoom. "Songs from the Astral Plane" is his eighth book of poetry in the past eight years. His style is ferocious but always optimistic. Check out links to his published poems along with a selection of poetry from his books on www.bobmcafee.com.