Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
By turns autobiographical, lyrical, meditative, these closely observed, fine-tuned poems in A Dark Wood consider the impermanence in our lives and give us an appreciation of those moments when wonder prevails: 'Imagine catching such light, like painting air / or the atmosphere before it shifts...' In the collection’s title poem ' A Dark Wood, 1946,' the speaker, recently returned from WWII, finds solace in his beloved woods: 'These deer my brothers and / sisters, the mirror of God St. Francis said.' These poems try to 'catch the light' of transcendence, the joy and sorrow in shared human experience-childhood, family, marriage, nature, aging, and loss.