Synopses & Reviews
Using long-lined, imaginative leaps to connect the everyday with the miraculous, the intimate with the visionary, Barbara Ras's poems surge across the page like waves crashing on a beach. She crafts the forty-one new poems in this collection with a zany and spacious cunning that reaches from family to community, from what's cherished to what's lost, from culture to nature.
Review
Barbara Ras's poems are informed by a metaphysically erudite and whimsical exuberance. (C.K. Williams)
Synopsis
Using long-lined, imaginative leaps to connect the everyday with the miraculous, the intimate with the visionary, Barbara Rass poems surge across the page like waves crashing on a beach. She crafts the forty-one new poems in this collection with a zany and spacious cunning that reaches from family to community, from whats cherished to whats lost, from culture to nature.
About the Author
Barbara Ras’s first book of poems, Bite Every Sorrow, won the Walt Whitman Award in 1997 and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is currently the director of the Trinity University Press in San Antonio.