The Swailing by Patrick James Errington elegy Chen is a poet I’ll

Chen is a poet I’ll be reading for the rest of my life

she is witty

a human being who delighted in the sensation of the moment

The man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across the middle of the marital home

A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry

The Swailing by Patrick James Errington elegy Chen is a poet I’llHere the long edge of town Low winter fog My breath my offering We are our bodies burning Firmly rooted in fire haunted landscapes that are at once psychological, emotional, and fiercely real, Patrick Erringtons first collection traces the brittle boundaries between presence and absence, keeping and killing, cruelty and tenderness. In these poems human voices whisper through the natural world a hand turns on a lamp to extinguish the stars; stones