A SHADE I CANNOT NAME
by Carol Traynor Mayer is a vulnerable yet forthright series of imagistic poems on place, aging, and family. A deceptively quiet voice wrestles an uneasy sense of peace from everyday weightiness. Meticulous and composed, a life long-lived moves across its masterfully crafted landscape that employs "much in little." Sparing diction in each poem paradoxically constructs the framework for this collection's complex confessional.