Visionary Wanderings
John Lars Zwerenz has created a distinct persona and voice in this new collection of his poetry entitled Visionary Wanderings. This persona is somewhat of a vagabond and a pirate. But his love for the beautiful and the true tells readers that this persona is a god himself, wandering incognito for those earthly visions that would engender the lyrical romantic mode.
With this, Zwerenz wanders far and wide and comes up with diverse and seemingly unnumbered beauty. These are poems that speak to the feeling of infinity in men – like Keats’ Grecian urn. What the poet achieves is another pinnacle that few will dare strive for in today’s literary climate. Zwerenz has gambled like the greatest of his peers from the past, and he has won. The cornucopia of natural imagery defined by its relation to godhood and its virtues, to the wrought beauty of ornaments standing on their places in church and palace, can be likened to the labor and results of Rembrandt.
This, therefore, is the focal trope of this poetry. It is an attempt, and a very successful one, of commuting through media and standards to fuse the pictorial beauty of great paintings with a poetic form suitable for them. These poems are word visions, the poet looking far and wide to pick out the best pieces that the human eye has been privileged to view.
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