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In How to Draw Fire Marcus Whalbring includes four sections that move from childhood, to reflections of estrangement, to love and parenthood, and ends in a place of healing and affirmation. This collection appeals to lovers of different schools of poetry. Those who admire the confessional mode will be attracted to the vulnerability in poems that explore the sense of anxiety and loss as the poet explores the strained relationships with family m...

There is a talent to describing the natural world that resists mere wonder for the sake of what used to be called the sublime, in which the mind willingly puts out its own light in the glow of more profound illumination. Marcus Whalbring has such talent. He also has a voice so human and sensible we think this sort of going into the world should be for all of us. These poems are spun from thought, they take that thought not to where it ends, bu...