Never Far From the Egg Harbor Ice House

<p>Rooted in the rich loam of a mythic southern New Jersey <em>Never Far From the Egg Harbor Ice House</em> collects thirty-six poems that conjure times places characters cultural obscurities and blunt facts. Form rhetoric rhythm music and imagery occur in great variety: Brief lyrics; serpentine narratives; demotic odes; polemics; elegies; and more. Before they wind to a close some of the poems quarrel with despair of and revel in the I at their cores even as other pronouns jostle for attention. The book offers no false reassurances or easy epiphanies instead embodying ambiguity in all its richness. With their every syllable these poems say Listen!</p><p></p>