Ostraca

ostrica Lyman Grant's ninth book of poems is a fragmented meditation on nature gardening spirituality poetry's legacy and the call of the here and now. Situating himself in his own garden of verses Grant re-scripts many of his favorite lines of poetry from Hesiod to Shakespeare Coleridge Millay and Bishop on to Gwendolyn Brooks and Terrance Hayes who provide the inspiration for the book through Hayes' Golden Shovel form. Lyrical and often intensely musical Grant's poems are like little bird songs escaping over the fence of your neighbor's yard.