Description: Poetry. In this beautifully balanced, elegiac book Curtis Bauer revisits the American sublime and restores to us, in our battered, bewildered moment, its clarity and dignity and honor. These are poems of an enduring human accuracy and a restrained, muted joy.--Vijay Seshadri
Brief description: Curtis Bauer is the author of FENCE LINK (BkMk Press, 2004), THE REAL CAUSE FOR YOUR ABSENCE (C&R Press 2013) and AMERICAN SELFIE (Barrow Street Press, 2019). His translations include: Eros Is More (Alice James Books, 2014), by Juan Antonio González Iglesias; From Behind What Landscape (Vaso Roto Editions, 2015), by Luis Muñoz; and IMAGE OF ABSENCE by Jeannnette Clariond (Word Works, 2018). His work has appeared in Tin House, The Literary Review, Two Lines and The American Poetry Review, among others. He is Translations Editor for The Common Magazine and he teaches Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University.