Wintering Over

<p>The poems in Wintering Over-to take shelter through and within the dark of the year-wrestle with a sacred yearning to embrace the light in darkness. Poems in the book's first half dwell with the interior lives of contemplatives the Arctic north. Others move from vastness to enclosure--a night swim in polar waters an anchoress preparing for a special visitor or a New England field teeming with quiet dramas of life and death. Everywhere in-between the will to carry on at times with only the smallest illumination startles these poems into moments of uneasy revelation.</p>