Description: "LSU Press Paperback Original"--T.p. verso.
Brief description: Steve Scafidi is the author of the poetry collections Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer, For Love of Common Words, The Cabinetmaker's Window, and To the Bramble and the Briar. He works as a cabinetmaker and lives with his family in Summit Point, West Virginia.
Review Quotes:
PRAISE FOR STEVE SCAFIDI:
"Scafidi deftly confronts both death and disaster in a manner that is as hilarious as it is serious.... In Scafidi's universe, it's all right to be a little off-center, because it is in the common, in the everyday that he finds dignity and communion." -- Karla Huston, Library Journal
"This poet engages life on multiple levels -- not complacent in the presence of suffering and not ignoring injustice, but open to the possibilities of grace, of beauty, of atonement." -- Philip Belcher, Southern Quarterly
"When I tell you [Scafidi] is a poet of impressive reach and Elizabethan exuberance, you may take me at my word. Imaginatively adroit, formally outfitted without necessarily being formally complex, his work inhabits a large cognitive and imagistic space where ostensible subjects -- snakes and weasels, a burning truck, the spruce front of a violin -- grow into emanations or strands of implication." -- David Rigsbee, Cortland Review
"Scafidi's poetry... musically and vividly reminds readers that creation is full of delights both large and small. It reminds us that life is short, that death is inevitable, and that the only mature responses to these hard facts are to be aware of beauty, meaning, pleasure, to take nothing for granted, to care deeply, and celebrate while we can. These are realizations that can quietly transform a life." -- Jeff Mann, Appalachian Journal