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The poems in Half-Dreaming, Douglas Nordfors' beautiful new book, fly like birds around twin flagpoles-the abstract vs. the concrete, the self as stable vs. the self as always in the process of creating itself, what is knowable about the world vs. what is, and always will be, mystery. Ruminative, breathtaking in their associative leaps, these poems see and feel with such burning intensity that they draw us, spellbound, into their fire. Over ma...

When he is introduced to Jeremy Davies at a party in the summer of 2000, Edward Larson has no idea what lies in store for him: a tentative but ever-deepening friendship with Jeremy's sister, a perilous fascination with Jeremy's wife, an obsession with the London Blitz, linking him to the Davies family and to the world at large in mysterious ways, an ability to assess his own troubled adulthood, and two trips from Long Island to London, each en...

When he is introduced to Jeremy Davies at a party in the summer of 2000, Edward Larson has no idea what lies in store for him: a tentative but ever-deepening friendship with Jeremy's sister, a perilous fascination with Jeremy's wife, an obsession with the London Blitz, linking him to the Davies family and to the world at large in mysterious ways, an ability to assess his own troubled adulthood, and two trips from Long Island to London, each en...

The universal fascination with time-past, present, and future-is the core of widely published poet Douglas Nordfors' second collection. The Fate Motif features a wide range of angles and subjects: personal history, historical figures and famous artists such as Queen Elizabeth I, Marcel Proust, and Buster Keaton, and various modes of abstract meditation. It also features two distinct, complementary styles. Some poems have a clear narrative fram...

With rare, discerning humility, these poems startle, unsettle, and move readers.