Sue Standing

Sanctuaries of the Beer Years

Arts & Literature

“Max Enos’s poems exist in a twilit landscape, word-drunk or beer-drunk, but always wry and prescient. . . . From the gritty streets of Worcester and Lowell or the liminal landscapes of Gloucester and Rockport to the chaos of Seoul, these poems ‘Look through the darkness at the ivy bushes / past the secret grief of city dogs / to stray cats, perfect in moonless wanderings.’ The meditative poems of Sanctuaries of the Beer Years mark an auspicious debut.”