Cove

<p>In <em>Cove</em> the compulsive intensity with which James Brasfield seeks to capture a fleeting moment's imagery to choose a song sown / for the moment imbues his poems with a sense of urgency and movement. By exploring the translation of the sensory world into art Brasfield faces the passage of time and the transitory nature of experience thought and memory. The poems find angles of vision to rescue a present instant in its essential fluidity to go deep enough without distraction into the moment and reveal touchstones of being. Throughout <em>Cove</em> Brasfield embraces the enduring effort to create an experience of language that is rich lasting and true as life speeds into and through the future.</p>