Margaret Gibson

Falter

Arts & Literature

“What seems timelessly human in these deftly articulate poems and their encounter with loss is an enduring longing for transformation. Body and heart are mortal, the world implacably secular, and no secular goal satisfies the longing to transcend the body and, paradoxically, come to grace and gratitude within it. And yet it is through the sensory body that so many of these poems join with the larger world. It is through Stelmach's skill with word and image that we enter a world enriched by solitude and darkness willingly. These poems widen the boundaries of solitude and allow us to hear and to see and to touch elemental, provisional truths.”

Still Working It Out

Arts & Literature

“Brad Davis has mastered the art of presenting the ordinary moment with all its stunning strangeness. Reading these poems, we become mindful that we live by mystery, by beauty, and by grace.”