Everywhere West
Mayapple Press, 2019
The warm, empathic poems in Chris Green’s latest collection are a life-affirming, alternative reality to the “loneliness business” of America’s “huge and swollen darkness.” With crisp language and formal dexterity, Green finds dignity and grace in the domestic, celebrating the everyday exuberance of love’s steady radiance. These poems bring us back home—back to the place where the quiet “frills of philosophy” are as necessary as the wild wisdom of children.
—Tony Trigilio