Torchwood

A second collection and first from Shearsman by this Brooklyn-based poet artist and small-press publisher.While Torchwood documents the loss of a religion and at times the loss of language it gathers hope as it goes. The mostly serial works in this collection explore the possibility of faith in humanity - colleagues classmates strangers lovers - attempting a language of clear-seeing and shared spirit. A poetry of inner and outer worlds of the diary and of the subway Torchwood moves between the sentence and its trust in storytelling and the fragment - evidence of the need to create silence in order to tell.