American Lotus The voices in Pirene's Fountain

The voices in Pirene's Fountain create a meaningful and lasting dialogue for all lovers of exceptional poetry and writing

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American Lotus The voices in Pirene's FountainThe wonderfully observational poems in Kevin Caseys American Lotus remind us how separate we are from the natural world, how we sometimes suer because of that estrangement, and oer us a way to bridge that divide. With a radical sympathy, poems like Red Maple (Acer rubrum) suggest that like this tree felled weeks ago, plunging with a sigh as the earth rushed up to receive it we too have been trimmed from this life. Once inside the rooms of these poems,