Asylum

Jerry Pinto's accomplished first book of poems travels the breathtaking spaces between madness, luminosity and quiet rebellion. Here, even paper has a life of its own, and that is just the beginning. The poems find themselves set adrift in an asylum-seeker's dilemma:the making of hopeful sea voyages; the dangerous search for safe havens; the lovely moments of slippage—of anchor and sense and what love means.