The Yellow Book

Mark Anthony Cronin
Poetry
101 pgs.
2024
Paperback

Cronin’s second poetry collection follows SELF-PORTRAITS and reorients its frame of reference. The earlier book stays close to the speaking voice and its immediate conditions; these poems widen their field of attention, placing private perception alongside astronomical time, distance, and scale. The change is formal as well as thematic: the poems move outward, letting personal moments register against images of vastness, duration, and indifference. The book turns from confession toward proportion, asking how a single life appears when set beside forces that neither notice nor respond. The collection sustains that tension, allowing intimacy to persist without claiming universality, and scale to expand while the human voice that measures it remains.