The Wayfarer

Poetic ballads that speak to a father's quest to chronicle daily life amid times of collapse.

Taking its name from part of a lost triptych by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, The Wayfarer documents its speaker's attempt to forge a path through the world--both as a father and as an artist--and to adequately capture the experience of living through poetry. In language that melds the vernacular and the archival, these ballads recall moments of love as they arise in an everyday existence dominated by an awareness of political and ecological collapse. Caught between the terror of wandering and the awe of witnessing new minds as they acquire early words and memories, the poems hold out hope for the tenuous transmission of meaning between generations.


Author: Cyrus Console
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: 11/06/2024
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781632431561
ISBN10: 1632431564
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
Cyrus Console is the author of Brief Under Water, The Odicy, and Romanian Notebook. He lives in Kansas City.