Shadows on the Sun

In this collection of poems, the world is broad, as is the geography. A small-town café anywhere in rural America. Breakfast in New York City. Central Valley farms. The Sierra and gold mining in the foothills.

There is much meditation on gold here, and its shaping of our lives. On persecution and its subjects. The methods and meannesses. Holy scenes from an older Russia. And sounds of the American night.

And memory. Always memory. Memory telling what the heart still knows. Proust lately in Normandy.

Morandi in Bologna. Everywhere, losses from a disappearing world.

The poems in Shadows on the Sun show an insistent take on the real world where the days run out and

the streets run home.