Shorts: 101 Brief Poems of Wonder and Surprise

These poems of "wonder and surprise" speak to those particular moments John Lehman identifies as "when the heart is overwhelmed by beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting spirit or voice speaking from deep within a place, an incident or person." Shorts is the first book comprised entirely of "justified poems." This new form, which Lehman originated, capitalizes on the dynamics between the spoken sentence and the intentionally-chosen line break, a technique masterly practiced by Robert Frost in his most memorable poems. The result is a reading experience that's as satisfying as watching an unexpected summer rain from the rocking chair on a friend's back porch.