Allison Funk

The Angel of Absolute Zero

Arts & Literature

“As life on earth grows more perilous daily, what can save us? asks Marjorie Stelmach. When ‘all calling is calling to an Other who has never / answered—this is Sorrow itself.’ Still, as she grieves in her new, achingly beautiful poems, she calls on the ‘Lord of our benightedness’ to ‘give us this day / our impure world / to make of it / what bread we can.’”