Restarting the World by Leonard Nathan

Jane Hirshfield recommends Restarting the World, poems by Leonard Nathan: "In this new book, along with his two previous Orchises Press volumes ( The Potato Eaters and Tears of the Old Magician), Leonard Nathan has created a late body of work of alchemical power. His brief poems observe with equal force and tact the momentary illumination, the subtle realization, the observation or memory, that bring into sudden focus the full harvest of a long-considering life. The intelligence and fierceness of these poems, their music of quiet statement and the sidelong blow of their insights, stop the breath. The full set of these three most recent of Nathan's books, read and reread, forms an even larger portrait and greater whole." (Orchises)