The Steel Veil

By Jack Marshall

Aging, 1940s Brooklyn, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict haunt these elegiac, passionate poems.

Soulfully introspective and viscerally engaged, Marshall's poetry weds timely depictions of Middle Eastern widows "behind veils heavy / as the steel / veil of empire" with timeless expressions of personal grief and political outrage. Invoking visionary possibilities of being while "riding unsteadily on the rails / of rhyme," Marshall's distinctive voice and elegant lyrics unite this muscled, multilayered collection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566892201
• ISBN13: 9781566892209
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"