New Poetry by NAS Member

Longtime NAS member and Academic Questions contributor David J. Rothman has recently published two new volumes of poetry, The Book of Catapults (White Violet Press) and Part of the Darkness (Entasis Press). He describes both books as “comedies, broadly speaking, in that they move from darkness towards light. Part of the Darkness is a sonnet sequence, or, more precisely, rima sparse, as there are a number of other fixed forms in the book, while The Book of Catapults, which was actually written first, is somewhat more adventurous with its meters and forms.” Both books are available on Amazon.com.

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