Charles Chase

Runway Lights Charles Chase

Runway Lights: Blue Rose is Charles Chase's fourth full-length book of poetry. The poems in this volume, which were written at various stages of the poet's life, are centered around the themes of love and nature. The volume includes prose poems and free verse poems, as well as another of Chase's "plural poems", or cleave poems. The poems are written in a variety of approaches, including modernist, surrealist, memoir, narrative and dramatic monologue, and can range from the sublime to the philosophical and psychological to angry or humorous. But regardless of the plethora of approaches, Chase maintains a keen sensibility of thought, feeling and observation, whether the subject is some insight about the natural world or one of the many faces of love and relationships. Throughout the volume, Chase exhibits both a passion for life - relishing the painful as well as the euphoric - and an unceasing quest to more deeply understand what it is to be human, including the relationship between man and the world in which he finds himself.