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The OTPNT* Poems
*On the Path Not Taken
by
Val Villarreal, Jr.
The title (On the Path Not Taken) stems from Robert Frost's poem of close to the same name; but Mr. Villarreal's poems speak to the easier road most Americans choose to take: the urge for the good life ushers in the Crash of '29; the notion we are too privileged to be moved leads to our entry into WWII; our choice to honor inordinately tapers into the "personal" tragedy of '63; thirst for height as symbol for greatness spawns an unthinable 9/11. The OTPNT Poems piquantly tools away at these conceits; more, they question who we are as Americans. We can see our past only dimly when not aware; It strengthens the will, if antithetically, almost whimsically, To our detriment— And to our continual lack; The measures we take from then on are much Too angularly felt to transform— Too estranged from us to matter. Excerpt from the poem A Beginning Time
I am presently doing restaurant work as a "profession"; my hobby is writing. I am of the mind that things change in the world at large, and my hope is to pursue the latter full time. I'm still trying to figure out what acting, surveying and the restaurant business---the three professions which have "made up my life" till now---have in common. This is my third book (all three have been poetry books); heaven knows where I go from here.
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