Essential Occupation

Poetry. From the vantage point of a favorite seat in the Common Café of Time, in ESSENTIAL OCCUPATION Steve Brooks takes us to the center of the poet's soul, asking the hardest yet the best questions of himself and of those who would call themselves "poets": Walt Whitman knew it. Emily Dickinson knew it. This aloneness is the raw meat of the poets and the oracle's cave of the soul. What if one accepts the loss of every beautiful icon? Can a Christian love God without Jesus? Can a Buddhist love Being without Buddha? Can a painter love beauty without a model? Can a romantic fall in love without lust or desire?