These Moments of Arrest

<p><span style=color: rgba(78 65 36 1)>Magic as a verb? The singer magicked the song into revelation; the artist magicked her painting into an act of healing. That's the best word I can come up with for Sheila Rosen's poems: She's magicked everyday earthy things-a granddaughter dancing a saxophone playing a busker busking-into arresting moments of staggering beauty. Each of these poems does what her title promises: arrests us stops us in our tracks grabs our whole attention and says Behold!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(78 65 36 1)>This is why poetry is one of the best ways to both rediscover and re-enchant the world and Sheila Rosen is one of its finest practitioners. Pure magic.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(78 65 36 1)>Mark Buchanan</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(78 65 36 1)>Author of The David Trilogy</span></p><p></p>