Knowing

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mark Cox pulls no punches in these candid poems about family relationships loss regret growing older and our human condition generally.</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Looking back for a low point marking the worst of my insobriety it might be that signal moment I put out my cigarette in the holy water font of St. Paul's Catholic church right in front of the priest I might add. . . Sometimes wry sometimes tender always honest and thought provoking this is the seventh volume of poetry from a lauded veteran poet who has been publishing prominently for almost forty years.</span></p>