an anthology of poetry by New Mexico poets

Poetry. Bruce Holsapple's WAYWARD SHADOW pulls the reader into a brilliant mind-flow that twists like the grain of split juniper and reads like a palm held open: life-line, fate, future, and the line of unseemly events that gives us our identity. Mind, heart, and a sharp eye mark every page.

Poetry. By turns mischievous and passionate, by fits lyrical and foolish, the poems of VANISHING ACT map a sustained interrogation of the interior, taking as territory the lyric subject itself. The content derives from daily life, financial worries, washing the dishes, advancing age, but as poems proceed to impasse and insight, shifts in tone, focus, and rhythm transport those concerns. Considered as a whole, VANISHING ACT involves the "depth we feel" and "shadow we cast," the possibility of falling through one's self to "the view looking."