Steve Creson's collection of thoughtful, introspective poems, Big Day, is arranged into five sections presented in reverse chronological order from 2020 back to 1988. The book ends with an afterword by Creson's long-time friend, the poet and multimedia artist, Jim Jones. Jones writes that:
Creson's lifelong project is to imagine how his past determines the quality of the unfolding present. As Kierkegaard remarked in his journal, 'Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.' The attentive reader, then, will not be surprised to find so many references to dates, days, and even specific hours and minutes. The poet tries to pinpoint experiences that have some bearing on what he is living as he writes each poem. The result is a kind of bilocation, a feeling conveyed to the reader of being in two places at the same time.
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