Description: Weaving diverse cultures, vast landscapes, and ecological concerns, crossing beauty with danger, this collection is an invitation to the world of travel, possibilities, and enchantment.
Review Quotes:
In the tradition of Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Morris poses questions of travel in her luminously attentive Lanterns in the Night Market. This peripatetic collection opens with a compelling invitation that also hints at a potential sadness, loss, or rootlessness. "Take my hand" says the speaker. "The past is gone." What ensues is a gorgeous slide projector of place after place: "everything and and and." These are clear-eyed poems that gaze candidly at trouble and troubled places--taking in the complexities of history, politics, and environmental crisis. But these are also poems of immense gratitude--revealing a poetic joy within the gorgeously-rendered details and images. This is a lovely and powerful volume.
--Lee Ann Roripaugh, author of tsunami vs. the fukushima 50