Poems for a Winter Afternoon

<p>The poems in "Poems for a Winter Afternoon" emerge from a winter landscape in literal and figurative senses. The landscape isn’t barren but rich in imagery allusion emotion. </p><p>Meighan conjures as much as creates a landscape rich in imagery allusion and emotion as the poet addresses the pain of exile the meditation of the solitary figure the warmth of communion with friends around a 19th-century tavern fireplace or at a modern diner counter. The setting varies from the present-day city street to lonely woods and meadows and extends geographically and thematically to the Russian Steppe of the poets whose music influenced this book. To read “Poems for a Winter Afternoon” is to explore a landscape that should strike the reader as simultaneously mysterious and familiar as well as exhilarating.</p>