Torghatten

In C.R. Reardon's second collection of poetry, the author (handicapped from complications with proton radiation on a brain tumor diagnosed at age eight) again takes the reader on a journey from melancholy and angst to enlightenment and optimism. The first section of poems is titled Seeds because the author is trying to demonstrate his belief that to become more human one must come from a darker place. In the second section the author delves into more personal, darker poems that gradually take a turn to the political. The third section of poems reflects on the small pleasures of life, and the book's title comes from the section's last poem Torghatten--a mountain in Norway with a hole through its center.