The Catharsis is a collection of 25 poetic works that utilize the formal styles of European sonnets, villanelles, haikus, sestinas, pantoums and free verse. These poetic pieces are correlated together in a manner of a train of thought meant to showcase the numerous questions, doubts, concerns, anger and ardent sentiments of poet Andrew Buckner. In this volume, Buckner addresses his introspective views as well as those in tune to his political and religious stance. The culmination of passionate wordplay and social conscience is exactly what makes ‘The Catharsis’ such a necessary, immediate and powerful work.
