Embracing Now: Pain, Joy, Healing, Living in Bloomington, MN

There are some truths only poetry can teach, some places within us that only poetry can reach. Chris Maxwell has taken such pains with this excellent poetry that it can reach into the places of our own pain and dislocation and offer healing words and liberating truth. Seamus Heaney once said that the best poetry offers us "phrases that feed the soul": this collection is full of excellent "soul food."