Reading Evening Prayer in an Empty Church

Selected poems, many of which have appeared major literary magazines. In time of composition and first publication poems in this volume span a near half century. Some are in closed forms; others are prosy, rambling, essayistic. Some are sad, Many are elegiac. A generous handful are occasional. Others, as the poet says, reflect religious encounters with the world. The poet is a southwesterner who has spent significant time in the old south and now lives in the midwest. His poems evoke a number of land and cityscapes, reflect their presences and their music, relish their specificity, ponder their histories. A poetic memoir.