Philip J. Deloria

The Audition

Arts & Literature

“Nancy Coombs’ poems threaten constantly to leap off the page as prayer or song, each one leaning deep into the primordial sensations of rhyme, repetition, and invocation, each verse an effort to enunciate the sacred lost words able to reveal the mysteries of the human and the spirit. The Audition is exactly what it names, a trying out of possibilities spiritual and deep, a remembering of pasts and a conjuring of futures. It is not to be missed.”