Poetry. "Beastly I fall at Adam under the shade." Sandy Florian's second book dilates under Milton's Forbidden Tree, plumbing God's unjustifiable ways, and Man's. In a world made from scratch, eros and artifice, thanatos and theology give off mixed and exquisite signals, here buckled in Florian's bejeweled and rigorous sentences: "words like chords like emerald snakes, words like lords like humble smoke." Florian's intellect blazes in this bold, ambitious work: "I have a war with history."

Author Hometown: MORGANTOWN, WV USA



About the author: Sandy Florian is the author of PRELUDE TO AIR FROM WATER (Elixir Press, 2010), ON WONDERLAND & WASTE (Sidebrow Press, 2010), THE TREE OF NO (Action Books, 2009), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007), and TELESCOPE (Action Books, 2006). She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she is a Visting Assistant Professor at West Virginia University.

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