(Some of) the Adventures of Carlyle, My Imaginary Friend: Poems by Dainas Hazners (Iowa Poetry Prize Series) - Softcover

"'We live in the mind...[and] if we live in the mind, we live with the imagination, ' says Stevens, naturally. Time spent with Dainis Hazner's imaginary friend Mr. C goes beyond life-affirmation. This interior epic is so sonically--'his song is like a forge/at full fire, '--and conceptually animate that I feel augmented, awakened to a living that is simultaneously 'many-shaded white' and 'sprung with darkness.'" We live in the mind. . . [and] if we live in the mind, we live with the imagination, says Stevens, naturally. Time spent with Dainis Hazners imaginary friend Mr. C goes beyond life-affirmation. This interior epic is so sonically his song is like a forge / at full fire and conceptually animate that I feel augmented, awakened to a living that is simultaneously many-shaded white and sprung with darkness. Ben Doyle, author of "Radio, Radio"" "'We live in the mind. . . [and] if we live in the mind, we live with the imagination, ' says Stevens, naturally. Time spent with Dainis Hazners' imaginary friend Mr. C goes beyond life-affirmation. This interior epic is so sonically--'his song is like a forge / at full fire'--and conceptually animate that I feel augmented, awakened to a living that is simultaneously 'many-shaded white' and --sprung with darkness.'"--Ben Doyle, author of "Radio, Radio"

Reading like one long odyssey, the author takes the reader on his many adventures which range from the ludicrous to the life-threatening with Carlyle flying into the light and carrying the reader with him on his perplexing and fanciful journey.