Unbuckled

Poems

By: David Meischen

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Paperback | 20 October 2026

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88 Pages

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The third collection from John A. Robertson Award– and Pushcart Prize–winning poet David Meischen, looking at the joys, the struggles, and the contradictions of aging.

In this gorgeous assembly of poems, award-winning poet David Meischen candidly examines how spirit defies both age and time, even when it cannot defeat either. Meischen’s poems investigate the ways sexual desire changes as we age, the grief of losing those close to us, and the oddness that comes with being young in spirit while trapped in a body no longer young. Rooted firmly in the Southwestern desert, these poems also travel to Russia and Germany, carrying a note of urgency in their exploration of a life well lived. Unbuckled is a collection full of vibrancy, hope, and gratitude.

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"Yearning is at the heart of Unbuckled, the sensory drive that keeps us engaged with the world. David Meischen gazes out upon the desert and beyond, noting both repetition and inevitable change, with wisdom and generosity. Landscape, memory, popular culture, and classical art mirror and replicate like ghost selves in these poems as the past and present engage in conversation that creates an expansive acceptance and universal, if tempered, understanding." - James Cihlar, author of The Shadowgraph: Poems

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