The Marriage of Space and Time

These poems find the strange and beautiful in everyday moments: visiting a deli flying on a plane sitting on the back steps noticing a stray cottonwood tuft recalling a walk with a child now grown. In this poets gaze each element of the quotidian becomes particular luminous and finally universal. This effect comes from fresh and powerful imagery; from surprising diction uniquely-apt words used in new ways as in each of us / hung out to die a wish out of water. The poems move with a freedom born of familiarity with meter and rhyme and the lines reverberate with subtle music. --Rebecca Foust Marin County Poet Laureate and author of Paradise Drive winner of the Press 53 Award for Poetry The Marriage of Space and Time is more often than not local in its concerns even intimate. Such is the nature of this particular marriage in which we all live. And die. This ongoing here and now. Also then. Our sorrows meet in one shadow he writes; later on he concludes Im old. Im coming to life. Myers aims to see as closely and accurately as he can and in his seeing he gives his readers a way to see as well and thus to be genuinely alive in our own time and space for as long as we have it. --Robert Wrigley author of Box and The Church of Omnivorous Light: Selected Poems