OPTICAL BIASES
OPTICAL BIASES: EPIGRAMS
RICHARD KRAUSE
Optical Biases is a collection of original epigrams. Each epigram is carefully culled, has a twist or edge, and is included as an aesthetic whole. They are readable. They are clear. They don’t require head scratching. Though they might not be read in a sitting, a reader would easily want to go through them once started. There is humor and no fillers are intended.
Overall the collection shows a way of looking, despite the writer’s own optical biases. Meaning and insight are the objects throughout. Areas that are addressed include intelligence, love, women, beauty, sex, cruelty, loneliness, friendship, talent and ambition, family, religion, and power.
6×9” | B&W | 124 pp
ISBN 978-8792633163
CATEGORY
Poetry
EDITION
Standard paperback 2012 | $18
NOTE
Epigrams
REVIEWS
Richard Krause’s Optical Biases makes us redesign our way of asking questions. His epigrams invite us to reconsider the significance of knowing the difference between what we want and what we need, what we ask for and what we get, and what we are and what we think. Optical Biases dislodges our perspectives, and we catch our eyes gesturing at life’s movements and rhythmical patterns. We wink at our thoughts that celebrate us. — CAMELIA ELIAS, Editorial
