<p><strong>MUSTERING WHAT&rsquo;S LEFT spans forty years of Roger Aplon&rsquo;s career. The poetry collection is a historical investigation into Aplon&rsquo;s transformation as a writer. It&rsquo;s a evolution of spirit, style, and craft. Many of the early poems (especially &ndash; The Monologues) were cursed, celebrated, maligned '/but eventually acknowledged as &lsquo;in the spirit of their time&rsquo;. Aplon captures image and tenor via an impressionistic rendering of the color and character of the world. Each rendering plays with voice and tone, generating a spectrum of speakers from one volume to the next. &nbsp;From the monological explorations in Stiletto to the impressionistic responses to contemporary music in Improvisations the rhythms ' images Aplon has chosen were meant to encourage the curious reader to respond viscerally &ndash; maybe touching a nerve that might otherwise remain innocent.</strong></p>