Sapphires on the Graves Quitab Editions University of Mississippi School of

University of Mississippi School of Law

” There is a timelessness to these poems

the observation & naming-we might all become “a little bit saved

and self-skepticism

Sapphires on the Graves Quitab Editions University of Mississippi School ofScott Ferry: remember that name he is undoubtedly changing poetry as we know it. Sapphires on the Graves is the antithesis of the stuffy, antiquated poems you read in school. In this collection, Ferry takes risks and he triumphs. Woven into one of a kind figurative language (poems liquefy and roll out of my ears like mercury) are observations and honesty that are not only powerful but also eerily resonant. Ferry, with unmatched technical ability and a