Michael Ballard is an emerging poet living in Tucson, Arizona. The themes that preoccupy him - love, death, loss, regret, the fleeting nature of existence - are not new, having been central to poetry since its beginnings. Yet Ballard believes the gravity of the subject matter need not rely on the familiar woe-is-me tone one might typically expect. In his collection, “Aria,” he aims to approach life’s most serious concerns, whenever possible, with humor and irony, as he invites us to consider the weightiest of conundrums: what it means to be alive.
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