Description
Poetry. The range of topics in Murray Silverstein's MASTER OF LEAVES—from the mind of God to a baby's colic, from the Higgs boson to a breakfast peach, from Shakespeare and Joyce to Mother Goose—astonishes and delights. The voice that moves through this expanse is as at home in the philosophical as it is in the colloquial. And there is so much music here, from the moving meditation on Monet at the beginning to the stunning final sequence on dark and light that gives the book its title. These are poems that celebrate the multiple blessings of life and time.
Author Bio
Murray Silverstein's first collection, ANY OLD WOLF (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2006), received an Independent Publisher medal for poetry. He served as executive editor of the anthology, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010). He is the author, most recently, of MASTER OF LEAVES (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2014), and his poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Brooklyn Review, Hunger Mountain, Nimrod, Poetry East, Zyzzyva and Rattle. A practicing architect and coauthor of four books about architecture, including A Pattern Language (Oxford University Press), Silverstein lives in Oakland, California.
Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA