Description: Poetry in Love with the World and Mourning Its Loss
Review Quotes: How I love those who see rot and rust as beginnings, not ends: the silo gone bad, the tongueless dog or prairie fire ripping past, scattering its ash--all invitations to an actual future. Like Dean Young and Matthew Olzmann, Andrew Hemmert kicks off with a natural fact or minute observation and lands, somehow, at the truths behind our constantly broken heart. I thought my heart might be hardened by now, but these poems held out a hand, offering both a reassuring resignation and--not faith exactly, more--some kind of dogged belief in duckweed, spiderwebs, in the absolute miracle of a single horse's breath.--Allison Adair, author of The Clearing