The Yellow Book

Mark Anthony Cronin
Poetry
101 pgs.
2024
Paperback

Cronin’s second poetry collection follows SELF-PORTRAITS while changing its frame of reference. Where the earlier book stayed close to the speaking voice and its immediate pressures, these poems widen their field of attention, placing private perception alongside astronomical time, distance, and scale. The shift is formal as much as thematic: the poems move outward, letting personal moments register against images of vastness, duration, and indifference. The book grows less concerned with confession than with proportion—how a single life appears when set beside forces that neither notice nor respond. The collection holds that tension steadily, allowing intimacy to persist without claiming universality, and scale to expand without erasing the human voice that measures it.