Sally Zakariya

This Mortal Coil

Arts & Literature

“In his masterful This Mortal Coil, Eric Forsbergh explores human heredity in narrative poems that surprise and delight with unexpected images. In ‘Rockport Graves,’ for example, Forsbergh writes of ‘two buried wives’ who ‘cannot realize how eternity, / like fanning out a hand of cards, / expands like an accordion.’ Drugs, war, love, even lobstering—the poet takes a wide look at life to suggest why we are who we are and why that matters.”