Uncomfortable Minds
“Uncomfortable minds” is Larry’s Sorkin’s riff on poet e.e. cummings ‘ words, “Cambridge ladies who...are unbeautiful and have comfortable mind” which refer to the conceit that uncomfortable minds are universal to all human beings. Larry Sorkin’s collection of poems—sometimes joyful, sometimes elegiac—explore the idea of the restless, uncomfortable state as either something we can run from, try to fix, or embrace. Each poem in the collection explores some disturbance in the psyche, with poetry as a way to confront the disturbance, use it, embrace it.
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Book details
- Author
- Larry Sorkin
- Imprint
- TMA Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 100
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Topics
- poetry collection · human psychology · restlessness and anxiety · e.e. cummings influence · emotional turmoil · inner life · meditation and acceptance
- ISBN-13
- 9781642505252
About the author
LARRY SORKIN is a poet and part-time businessman who performs poetry with the classical music group The Bechtler Ensemble and presents workshops exploring connections between poetry and fine arts, dance, music, and depth psychology.
Sorkin serves as summer poet in residence at the Airy Knoll Arts Project.
When he’s not writing, Sorkin holds up on his ridgetop overlooking the Piedmont, daydreaming into the fields. Poetry came to him in his forties under the influence of Robert Bly, and he considers it a calling to spread that passion.
Larry lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.