Metal & Rain

Jacob Salzer's tanka in Metal & Rain reveal the deep resonance between the inner landscape of the human heart-mind and the outer landscape of mountains & rivers forest & sea-and their many denizens. Making skillful use of emotionally resonant images Salzer's tanka probe the past ponder the future and examine perennial themes of family love & loss the nature of the self and our place in the world: among deep valleys / there is no me. These deeply thoughtful poems offer no easy answers but invite readers to explore another mystery / I don't want / to solve.-Jenny Ward Angyal award-winning tanka poet and author of Earthbound: Tanka-prose & Haibun Only the Dance: Tanka Threads and Moonlight on Water: Tanka