Sunday Afternoons with Tolstoy

At the heart of this poignant book is grief, is, as Lynne Burris Butler writes, 'the enormity / of what we know too late.' These poems have been distilled in the crucible of hard experience; they sparkle with life's ironies, with the contention between an image of order and a chaotic violence ready to erupt just at the edge of vision. -- Bill Tremblay

"At the heart of this poignant book is grief, is, as Lynne Burris Butler writes, 'the enormity / of what we know too late.' These poems have been distilled in the crucible of hard experience; they sparkle with life's ironies, with the contention between an image of order and a chaotic violence ready to erupt just at the edge of vision."