Where most poetry collections focus on family sentimentality or cultural history, the poems in 'The Translator', composed with real and surreal imagery, address the social, spiritual, and melancholic conditions of humanity with an emphasis on staying aligned with the natural world.

The Translator

Literature & Fiction

Helmer, Dah

Poetry

Transcendent Zero Press

Excerpt from the introduction by Michael Grotsky: “Ambitious in its scope, Something Else’sThoughts, Dah’s seventh book of the decade, is a rumination on death, loss, desire, and absence, as he weaves one poem into the next, creating a tale that walks the high wire of love and disorder between the narrator and his muse, who contributes to the experience. They inhabit a nebulous world that slips between, behind, under, and into “the gray line” –– a metaphor that runs throughout this work as a mystifying and elusive divide between all things”.

Something Else's Thoughts

In Broken , poems, DAH's tenth book of poetry, the concept of broken refers, not only to the emotionally broken but, to the fragmented structuring of the poems themselves; to their spasmodic jumping from topic to topic within the context of any given poem. This fragmented presentation aligns with DAH's love for the unexpected, while his offbeat approach to the handling of (or mishandling of) punctuation is akin to an abstract artist throwing paint at a canvas. Completely modern, these poems are a high-water mark in a creative writing declaration, in DAH's achievement to reach an artistic expression that takes his work to various emotional levels. - Juliet Menrae

broken , poems

Literary

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The Translator

Something Else's Thoughts

broken , poems