Out of Venus's "astonished torso, " rises an unsparing consummation of loss - "the scent of cedar, /the map that answers long-asked questions..." Galloway blesses death's "dark horizon" not with a singular name, but with the blushed patina of "skin and story" fleshing out love's ubiquitous fragility.
Maureen Alsop, author of Apparition Wren and The Diction of Moths
Ekphrasis, myth, childhood, and the larger history of our times are all...
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