Middle Ages

<b> A new collection from a Whiting award and National Poetry Series winner. </b><p>Thomas Lux has called Roger Fanning an American original...[whose] poems are so pure so piercing so simple so distilled that reading him is like taking a drunk-with-language dive into a moonlit lake on a night you believe you will live forever! Fanning writes surprising and evocative poems that are filled with humor and ingenuity; Mary Karr says he tunes us in to those minuscule instants of revelation that can keep life from being a long zombie convention. This new collection of poems Fanning's first in more than ten years in part chronicles a period of time when he suffered a break with reality and continues his investigations into the drudgeries the disappointments and the joy of our daily lives.</p>