Affirmations and Contradictions

About the Book

Affirmations and Contradictions contains Robert Weston’s latest poems, written over a three year period (2006 – 2008) that included some of the best and some of the worst of times. The presence of the Breakthrough Men’s Community is obvious in some if not all of these poems, which celebrate and articulate various dimensions of recovering and nurturing the inherent nature of self in a confusing world. Weston’s previous collections of poems are Certainties (2006) and Voices of Lobos (2010). He has a PhD in English Literature and has done Master’s work in psychology. He lives on the Monterey Peninsula of California with his wife Joy.

About the Author

Photograph by Fred Brown Robert Weston Robert Weston’s first published collection of poems, Certainties (2006), contained poems written over 40 years from his time as a graduate student and Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellow at Stanford University. He has been a docent at the Point Lobos Wildlife Reserve since 2006 and this collection of poems (Voices of Lobos) is his response to the scene and some of the history of the place known as Point Lobos. He has studied the geology, the pre-history, and some of the cultural episodes that took place there and his poems celebrate the natural and cultural diversity of the place. A collection of non-Lobos poems, Affirmations and Contradictions, is due to be published this year. He has lived in Pacific Grove, California, since 2002.