Description: The poems in this collection are varied and complicated, full of mystery and surprise, as an aging poet comes to terms with death and eternity with the skills and grace of a master.
Brief description: Kerry Shawn Keys is the author of many dozens of books, most recent among them Night Flight (poems), 2012; Pienas (prose tales and plays), 2013; New Poetry from China, 1917-2017, co-translated with Ming Di, 2018; and Shoelaces for Chagall, Love Poems (2020). Keys received the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America in 1992 and, in 2005, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. He was a Senior Fulbright Research grantee for African-Brazilian studies in Salvador, Brazil, and from 1998 to 2000 taught translation theory and creative composition as a Fulbright Associate Professor at Vilnius University.