A. Robert Lee's Expanded Poetry Collection 'Time Travels' Published by Essex House Publishing

Essex House Publishing released a 2026 edition of A. Robert Lee's poetry collection, featuring a cover image by Marla Allison. The new volume reworks and expands an earlier version that had appeared under a now-defunct small UK independent press, and it adds previously unpublished poems. The collection opens with epigraphs invoking Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote that language is saturated and animated by time, and Tennessee Williams, who described time rushing toward us with a hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics while preparing us for its inevitable fatal operation. A third epigraph is attributed to the reviewer recounting the experience, with lines about leaning on the elbow of eternity and finding nothing but space and shadows. The opening poem, 'World Enough and Time I,' addresses time directly as a wizard, bastard, and unbanishable thief, questioning whether it is an arrow, loop-back, reverse, or spiral, and calling it kin to gravity, water, and air. Across a dozen sections, the poem uses plain-spoken language drawn from astronomy, mathematics, archeology, cosmology, chronology, geography, architecture, history, ecology, literature, and medicine. Additional poems include 'Self-Time,' 'Art's Time,' 'Sporting Time,' 'Time Was,' and 'Time Is,' closing with a short 'Epilogue.' The reviewer describes the book as a curriculum for life, learning, pleasure, and the intellect, and recommends reading all the poems.