Sheer

Beginning with an oblique nod toward memory, Sheer moves quickly into a territory where personal loss and global violence merge, allowing the poet to explore through highly nuanced language and insight the psychological roots and social manifestations of war. Gradually the book moves beyond destruction and loss to a transcendent but earth-embracing vision that acknowledges the unbreakable bonds between death and life, darkness and light, where words are golden light, on the dark of the water.