D. R. James, Lost Enough: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2007).
"This chapbook of 24 poems is "fictionally autobiographical" and spins off of William Stafford's epigraph in the title poem: "If you're lost enough, then the experience of now is your guide to what comes next." Says the author, "We're all a product of our pasts, yes, but we really only live a series of now's, and that done consciously frees us from what may feel like the lostness of inevitability. There is always the next now." Reflecting on the book, Leah Maines, poet and editor notes, "We are all lost in our own little ways, and James reminds us that life is a mixed bag of memories....[These] poems serve as revelations—life is about finding our way and losing our way, and finding it again."