Grief Touched the Sky at Night New Release with its taut lyricism and

with its taut lyricism and uncompromising honesty

and desire on both personal and planetary scales

in these richly detailed poems

and emotional connections

Grief Touched the Sky at Night New Release with its taut lyricism andThese 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