So Forth – Poems

<p>With irony, in mourning tinged with eros, one of our most extraordinary poets blends the personal and the political to meditate on damage, aging, and injustice. The poems in <em>So Forth</em> surge back in memory, pondering guilt and forgiveness. Consciousness flows from singular to plural; identity in these poems does a round dance with other personae, with formidable women artists of the past in the powerful sequence "Legende of Good Women," with pre-Socratic philosophers, and with lovers, children, and strangers-the strangest of whom is the face in the mirror. In response to griefs both historical and contemporary, <em>So Forth</em> contemplates the quest for the holy and traditions of the sacred.</p>