Description: A Season is a visionary meditation born out of a spiritual crisis. As the poems attempt to remake a life within the ghostly limbo into which they've fallen--between self and world, sound and echo, the uncanny and the sublime--they work to reweave an intimacy between the past and the present, the "self" and its others, and between the world that remains and a world that's been irrevocably lost. Full of strange ecstasies and waking dreams, A Season is a self-portrait as blank space, a self-portrait as continual becoming--"a house of mirrors in which every face is perpetually on its way."
Brief description: MICHAEL JOSEPH WALSH is the author of Innocence, which was selected by Shane McCrae as the winner of the 2021 Lighthouse Poetry Series. He is the editor of APARTMENT Poetry, and his poems, translations, and criticism have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Fence, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia.
Review Quotes: A Season is unlike anything I have ever read before. Musical, imaginative, and utterly surprising, Walsh's poems unfurl like a study in estrangement or the map of a consciousness within a dream: 'song, pantomime, song, slow fire.' This book lets us touch the pain and ecstasy we might find while parsing a strange world, the wonder we might feel bringing language to a place where we are not at home.--Jessica Tanck "author of Winter Here"