Now Before and Ever
Guran, Holly Now Before and Ever goes the title, unpunctuated to keep the temporal perpetual, just as life itself flows on without interruption, and just as this extraordinary book so exactingly demonstrates in poem after beautiful poem, each one a time capsule of poignancy and visceral memory. "The poem is a teacher / like earth it sings / mysteries into the skin, " Holly Guran writes in the introductory poem. And everywhere that lyric instruction is driv...