Runners

<p>This book by Gerald Hausman marks the author’s third book of poems since <em>New Marlboro State</em> which Gary Snyder called “fine poems clear and inside / outside of things.” The theme of <em>Runners</em> is not the mere physical act of long-distance running but the art of direction-finding in life. Using this as a metaphor the poet explores the heart of the four universal directions while running through the four compass points of the American landscape. Whether he is up north in a New England blizzard or jogging along the Mississippi Gerald Hausman invests his work with that peculiar insight common to poets of place: scenes enchant by evoking permanence through a re-calling of history and the heart legend and the mystery of the moment.</p>