Aidan Kelly

The Word Creates the Thing It Names Aidan Kelly

This collection includes almost all of my poems written during the last thirty years. Most of them have been written since 2015, and most of those during 2017. They are manifestations of what I have been thinking about for most of my life, about the nature of our minds, about the meaning of experiences that transformed me, about how and what we know and why we think we know it. On the other hand, some of them are for sheer enjoyment, since poetry is a form of play in addition to being epistemological. Some of these poems appeared on my Facebook page. Here they are all organized into a stream of consciousness.