New poems by the author of Winter Crows.
Description
It takes shape
as flocks
rising up
stop us cold to watch
their dark bond
with dawn
become grounds
for going, a presence
born again
in every sense
when winds spread
the word
and brown fields bristle like
dense fur
down the back
of the earth.
— from "November"
Barry Sternlieb is the author of Winter Crows (2008 winner of the Codhill Press Chapbook Award), and three other chapbooks. His work appears in Poetry, The Yale Review, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Sewanee Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, and others. He is the recipient of a 2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Poetry, and also edits Mad River Press, specializing in the very slow creation of handcrafted, limited edition letterpress poetry broadsides and chapbooks since 1986. The Mad River archive is housed in The Chapin Library at Williams College.