Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice: Selected Poetry 1975-2012 edited by James Hepworth gathers together the very best of Michael Hogan's work from the Paris Review The American Poetry Review the Iowa Review and dozens of other journals and magazines as well as several out-of-print books. It is a valuable addition to the American poetry library. Sam Hamill in his Introduction to this volume writes: These poems written over the past thirty years most often contain a narrative thread that leads into an awakening insight a meditative revelation that arrives not with a shock but with a sigh or a moment of stillness capturing an essence that is pure poetry that moment between image-making and philosophy between the intimate whisper of truth and the song's need to be sung.