
Of Cautious Steps
Darren Black(Author)
Eileen Cleary(Editor)
Lily Poetry Review (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
40 pages
978-1-957755-43-4 (ISBN)
Description
I want to get this right / to climb into your sentences insists Darren Black's speaker in one of the poems in Of Cautious Steps. Indeed, these poems, which survey the collapse of eyesight, which proffer currents and faith / that crest and wane in slow decay, whose Braille-trained fingertip skims, finds only the margin / a disconnected phone, burned linoleum, / a bottle's perfect mouth, get things right with a heady and remarkable consistency from start to finish. To measure is to hope, as Black tells us, and it is our hearts that are measured by these poems, so precisely wise, so surefooted in their glorious craft and hopeful imagination. Tom Daley, author, Far Cry
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
75 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-957755-43-4 (9781957755434)
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Darren Black's work has appeared in the Muddy River Poetry Review,The Saranac Review online, Of Rust and Glass, and in Lily PoetryReview's anthology "Voices Amidst the Virus." Of Cautious Steps is hisfirst poetry collection. He lives on Massachusetts' north shore with hislife partner and has recently retired from a rehabilitation counselingcareer. Darren, he/him, loves reading at local open mikes, playingmusic, connecting with new friends and places through travel,coaching adaptive sports, advocating for disability accommodations,and teaching others about blindness through his own experiences.