Grief Touched the Sky at Night New Release The past is ever near

The past is ever near

with its taut lyricism and uncompromising honesty

Bell captures in poetry the movement of film—slow-motion plates

and emotional connections

and desire on both personal and planetary scales

Grief Touched the Sky at Night New Release The past is ever nearThese stark, candid, and radiant poems in Gloria Mindocks new collection give shape and space to voices lifted from the clutter and clamor that is the matrix of war. The war is upon us now, but poets forever have sung such lamentations and haunted us all too often throughout history. One thinks of Homer, Wilfred Owen, and Carolyn Forche. A fierce and generous tenderness and enviable humanity ungirds these unflinching poems. Mindocks is the voice we