Hoyt wrote most of the poems in "Rejecting the New Millennium" from 1994 to 1999 while he was an instructor at Grambling State University in Louisiana.
A limited edition of the collection was issued in 1999 by CC Marimbo Communications, PO Box 933, Berkley, CA 94701. 24 signed and numbered hard copies of this collection are still available from the author.
Rather than embrace the popularized songs and the hype that accompanies
the turn of Y2K, Don A. Hoyt examines the real accomplishments that one
might expect from a thousand years of new experience. His lyric typifies
only a lateral progress: "Behind the blue layers / is the dark of
beginnings / disguised as emptiness / the abyss..." (Genesis Repeated).
He finds "Fences / along / the road / visit every / nation.... Refugees
have more than we" (Refugees). The evolution of consciousness has "grown
static like the lost age of Aquarius" (Rejecting the New Millenium).
In
this taut collection from memory and experience, from Deep-South
meanderings, Don Hoyt records the "natural history" of his personal
journey towards the New Millennium, examining, questioning, rejecting,
creating, re-creating, interweaving his sparse images, packing them into
these 33 poems for transit into tomorrow, and as a time capsule to
leave behind, a poet's testimony extracted from the "blue layers" of
yesterday, put down on paper inspite of the "blinding light." Since we
have little choice but to accept the New Millennium, Hoyt's poems give
us an opportunity to rethink where we have been, where we are going, and
how we may relate to the dawning of the "New Age" and the territory
left behind.
Reading
Don Hoyt's poetry is worth the effort it takes to penetrate its dense,
sometimes abstract surface. I think, the greatest joy in reading his
verse results from the musical and intellectual control, and the
constant surprises of thought and ear. His is an outstanding talent, and
reading him offers the reader incalculable rewards.
Randy Fingland, Publisher, CC Marimbo Communications, Berkley, CA
Errol Miller, author of Forever Beyond Us and Downward Glide
Harry de la Houssay, poet and teacher
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