This is beautiful work, subtly but insistently awake to our fraught moment, most particularly the near death of an American city. This poet is prepared to knife open the scrim of somnambulism and complicity that keeps our peril hidden from us—at our peril. Colosseum is utterly absorbing, yes, but also memorable and preternaturally wise. Carolyn Forché
Links to Poems and Reviews:
“Colosseum” from The American Poetry Review
“Earth” from The Paris Review
“Ark” and “Spring Wish” and “The Singing” from Caffeine Destiny
Interview with Red Mountain Review
Interview with San Francisco Station
Reviewed by:
An Intersection of Theology and Culture
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2009 Recipient of the Larry Levis Reading Prize from VCU
“Best Books of 2008,” Publishers Weekly
“Top 10 Poetry Books of 2008,” Virginia Quarterly Review
