I think about this passage in Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance virtually every day:
“What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like instead to be concerned with the question “What is best?”
Recent News
- Karl meets Joe Bonamassa
- Random Acts reviewed
- Recent publications
- Alpha Images and Revelry’s Ilk reviewed
- Alpha Images: Poems Selected and New published at Water’s Edge Press
Upcoming Events
- TBD
Random Acts newest from Karl Elder
CyberWit, 2022
Random Acts includes over 60 previously uncollected poems. Order from the Publisher.
Order Alpha Images
Water’s Edge Press, 2020
Karl Elder has gathered the best of his poetry in Alpha Images: Poems Selected and New. This 270 page volume includes over 50 new or previously uncollected poems. Order from the Publisher.
Reverie’s Ilk Available Now
Cyberwit, 2020
“Karl Elder is a poet of rich imagination and high intelligence, whose work I have admired for many years. His formal prowess extends from the prose poem to the haiku to the challenging abecedarius. It is always a pleasure to open any book of his or to encounter a new poem in a little magazine.” — David Lehman, editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry