Far and Away

In Far and Away, Mark Jarman's third full-length collection of poems, he writes about Southern California, it's changing line and cityscapes, and the people who live there, especially in the beach towns of Greater Los Angeles where he grew up. Jarman says of these poems, "They are more or less experiments with narration and reconstruction of experience. Today the part of LA where I was a teenager bears little resemblance to what it was then. And yet my back would look isn't all together nostalgic. I have no desire to return to the past, only to recover some lost people and places." The collection also includes poems for his wife and daughters set in the South where he lives now with his family.