“In the creation of common experience the artist generates a new beautiful object,” writes Richard A. Gylgayton in the Afterword to Full Canvas.

The poems in this volume evoke a lyric universality in which the poet uses his own life to convey the mutual uniqueness of human consciousness.

Covering a broad range of subjects, including music and composers, religion and spirituality, history and literature, the poems are the result of the process of “getting it right,” in which an individual’s relationship with the imaginative content of his own life becomes a gateway to understanding the commonality of the civilization in which we all participate.