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Harm’s
Way
Poems by Eric Leigh
Poems about the struggle to
find and be found, to love and be loved
“‘The country poor used to mark graves / with
their best piece of china—chipped bowl / butter dish,’
their tribute a form of ensoulment. And the poet who beholds
this gesture in all its native eloquence has made of it an
ars poetica. I know no writer whose vision is more generous,
more inclusive than that of Eric Leigh. The thirteen-year-old
girl who feeds a houseful of siblings on dandelion greens,
the machinist working the midnight shift, the drag queen,
the barman, the heroin addict on the bus: poetry cannot keep
them from harm, but it can, in the deft hands of Leigh, endow
them with mortal radiance.”
—Linda Gregerson, author of Magnetic
North and The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep
“Eric Leigh writes of loss in poems that are deeply
moving and yet unsentimental. Reading his first collection,
Harm’s Way, I’m struck by his intensity
and eloquence. He has the charm of a storyteller with a wide
range of settings. . . . A sequence, ‘The Dark-Light
of Spring,’ courageously recounts a violent family death.
The title poem has me enthralled.”
—Grace Schulman, author of The
Broken String
Eric Leigh received
his MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, where he
was honored with Hopwood Awards in both poetry and non-fiction.
His recent honors include a “Discovery”/The
Nation Prize, the New Letters Prize for Poetry,
the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, and a Dorothy
Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. He has been a finalist for
the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Samuel French Morse
Prize, and the Walt McDonald First-Book Competition in Poetry.
He lives in San Francisco.
April
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 60 pages
$16.00 paper
ISBN 978-1-55728-930-8
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