The poems contained in The Great Outdoors are a further realization of the author's journey toward 'naturalism'. The structural elements point in this direction. Love, history, family, business, travel, is the palette David Novick works from. Vibrations create sound and language captures that sound. By applying that language one hopes to unlock the existential answers that exist in the natural occurrences of the everyday. The poems were written between 2016 and 2018 with the exception of 'Trucker' and 'Mysterious Virus'. The front cover is a selfie from May 2016. The author settled on the title and front cover in 2018. Eventually reality caught up with art. When that happens we all pay the price. 'Mysterious Virus' is a tribute to those events.
