The Moon on Elba

<p>The title of Andrew Frisardi's <em>The Moon on Elba</em> comes from one of its poems a beautiful ghazal striking in its graceful blend of form and intelligent feeling. The book's opening poems include the Audenesque meditation Word and a character poem The Jeweler in which marvels are found ironically in the mundane. Frisardi writes of bedtime when we undress-rehearse for death. He offers a Covid poem in Sapphics and a lovely ballade for That singing contradiction the late Timothy Murphy.</p>