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Despite its unassuming low-key title, On Sunday Afternoons is a collection of vividly stimulating surprises-whether of natural description, emotional understanding, or bristling with tactful literary reference. What I especially admire is how in poem after poem Becker startles a reader into refreshed appreciation of what we think of as the 'ordinary' world. Ordinary yes, but extraordinary too in the near-haiku glimmer and glow with which the poet animates small corners of the natural world. In one poem 'Local plovers call-/ and-answered/ from the power poles;' in another 'night animals’ voices rise cantabile falsetto/ in mock solemnity. She cranes her neck.' (That Becker is also a musician-composer enriches his poetic brew.) On Sunday Afternoons also contains longer meditations rich in human-often familial-feeling, or poems that lean into more surreal animations, or revisit a remembered Brooklyn: 'washed up on the shoals of the Gowanus.' Lucid and musically realized, these poems emerge from what Becker calls 'This center of imagining,' a place in which the 'bright sky' of his own imagination is at home.-Eamon Grennan'a gorgeous collection... thoughtful, affecting, and compelling...filled with poems that are beautifully crafted, imaginative, moving.'-Jeffrey LevineOf 'Fates,' '[there’s a] dense sensual feel of language [and its] frame is kept both various yet consistent. It’s really a great size and shape, like they say-delightful!'-Robert Creeley
