John Yurechko
Second Thoughts: Poem and Passages
Book blurb...
Second Thoughts is a second volume of poetry by John Yurechko following his previous book, Head Lines. Both are writings meant to be read out loud, either alone, or with others. The collections span over seven decades of the author’s life, reflecting on his youth in Pennsylvania, years in California and Virginia, his travels abroad. Exploring simple yet complex topics and everyday events, the writings journey from the most personal to the universal, from the immediate to the timeless. There are poems about family, friends, co-workers, and people I have met, and mysteries of the worlds around us. Poems on language, life, love, sex, anger, pain, health, growing old, death, beauty, marriage, family, children and grandchildren, friendship, work, steel mills, plants, time, the infinite, the universe, the cosmos, creation, the ocean, history, the future, the past, the small, the large, religion, sports, the self. The poems ask a lot of questions; sometimes answering, sometimes not.
