Yes, I Do Care

The true unity of a poetry collection does not arise merely from gathering poems beneath the same cover. Its deeper unity begins when texts written at different moments, across different stages of a life, start answering the same essential question years later.Yes, I Do Care is a book shaped by such an inner bond.For this reason, Yes, I Do Care is not simply a selection of earlier poems republished. It is the result of a long poetic journey being reconsidered through the literary awareness of the present, then refined, deepened, and brought into a new internal coherence.The living core of the earlier poems has been preserved. At the same time, expressions worn by time, overly explanatory passages, and the untampered intensity of youth have been reconsidered. Some poems have expanded, some have been distilled, and some have been given an almost entirely new structure. In this way, the voice of the past has not been erased, but allowed to speak again through the experience of the present...For this reason, Yes, I Do Care cannot be confined to the category of protest poetry. Nor is it merely a collection of religious poems. It is a book of:social conscience and personal reckoning,the subtle passages between witness and prayer,the case outside and the trial opened within the self.At Nordic Publishing, we present this work to readers as an expression of faith in poetry's power not only to seek beauty, but also to remember, question, keep record, and, when necessary, judge even the one who speaks.In this book, the poet does not look at the world from a distance. He accepts the burden of what he has seen. Nor does he direct his words only toward others; he turns them inward as well.In the end, rather than issuing a grand or spectacular verdict, he stands behind the simple yet weighty sentence that carries the entire book:Yes, I do care..Nordic Publishing