Lusions

the long version

These are lyrical and witty poems about change and cultural evolution from an intellectual and insightful mind. In this collection, Ragan's musings prompt him to explore the historicity in man's cultural and mythical identities - from Prehistory, in which he muses on the "Birth of God (from an Early Photograph)" and "The Pebble Culture," when our distant ancestors turned "violence into culture," to the New World, where he covers such topics as Tuzla, the inner city, and the construction of a city mall. Once he catches up to the Premillennium, Ragan's poems are overwhelmed by a return to nature, perhaps the only antidote to our electronic age.