Moments Strange

- Ed Werstein, Regional Vice President, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, and author of and Ed Block teaches us how to love fully the world around us with every word he writes. Filled with wit and wonder, spans seasons, memories, and continents with a grace that readers are sure to savor. - Michael Welch, Awards Director at Chicago Review of Books and 2016 National Federation of State Poetry Societies' Florence Kahn Memorial Award winner Ed Block's new collection, ranges from the Midwestern USA to Africa, and travels across time as well, but it is always rooted in the real (and yes, strange) world of landscape and memory. As Block writes in one poem: "The evergreen is full of voices/Speaking alien, avian words." This beautiful book reflects and magnifies moments from a life well lived. - Angela Sorby, Professor of English, Marquette University, and author of the