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From the Ancient Works
Hardcover
Publisher: J.D. Baimel
Published: Mar 30 2026
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From the Ancient Works is a collection of poems shaped over a lifetime-written in moments of wonder, grief, devotion, and return. These poems move through memory and myth, family and inheritance, the natural world and the long echo of human history, tracing how private lives are formed within forces far older than ourselves.
Across its sections, the book reflects on time and belonging, on what is handed down and what must be relearned, and on the quiet ways meaning endures. Intimate poems of home and lineage stand beside meditations on unseen presences that linger at the edges of daily life. At times, the work draws subtly from the language and perspective of engineering-where structure, measure, and balance offer another way of understanding the world. The voice is contemplative and precise, attentive to both the fleeting and the enduring.
Rather than offering answers, From the Ancient Works listens-to silence, to memory, to the natural and ancestral echoes that shape who we become. It is a book for readers drawn to reflective, image-rich poetry that honors patience, attention, and the slow accumulation of lived experience.
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