In one of his poems, Kuusisto calls himself a “fool of the night seasons,” referring to the blindness that affected him during his youth. This poet, however, is no fool about poetry or the construction of beautiful and haunting... Read More

The best poems are the ones that call a reader to return again, conveying content through imagery, then going further, by penetrating these images in an act of transcendence. Representative of this process are the following lines about... Read More

The cover art of "Rootbound"—a shadow-picture of flowers and leaves—fits the domestic, carefully crafted quality of Jeanne Emmon’s first book of poems. This is meant descriptively, not dismissively. These are moving, exacting poems... Read More

“Man is like a tree,” the painter Marc Chagall wrote, “his roots lie in the earth of his country. Then the branches may spread out over the whole world.” His art, with its poetic synthesis of his Russian Jewish heritage, was... Read More