Crossing the Tape

<p><strong>Ekphrastic poems bump up against poems about baseball about the sad fate of urban areas about art about ordinary mortality and most personally about the horrific murders perpetrated during the Holocaust and other atrocities as in The Vanished World of Iryna Abramov a villanelle set during the Russian invasion of Ukraine: In Bucha the flowers grow fat on the graves. This is a collection to be read and read again and to cherish with each re-reading.</strong></p>