Angles of Separation New Release ” (“America is Big”) Our

” (“America is Big”) Our poet is a wry observer: “…her advertisements / try to sell you the real you

despair and the dry desert wind

Cline gives us fourteen contemporary sonnets carrying over the last line of a poem as the first line of the next

Whether Dumesnil is chronicling the tragedy of the California fires or immigrant children “sleeping

’ carries readers aloft to reflective

Angles of Separation New Release ” (“America is Big”) OurAngles of Separation explores the ways in which humans divide and isolate themselves from nature, one another, and their own spiritual centers, in poems rich with organic images, myths, and sensory details. This book, with its taut lyricism and uncompromising honesty, reveals the fragility of bonds and life itself. Angles of Separation is replete with a virtuosity which shines through the crafting and complexity of language; its subtle emotional heft