Edited by Sheri L. Vandermolen Squall Wind beats the winter wheat. Flap in the stippled breeze Like people clapping hands In a crowded coliseum. Cows turn their backs to the world. And these flat-out plains. Now rain paints war designs On the face of this plow-traced land.
Furrows retreat like sandcastles Washed by a truculent sea.
Autos creep wheel-deep in water. Traffic lights blink into sleep. Against one window of the restaurant Where we, just passing through, Have been forced to serve the storm, Debris etches a dance of death. This 633-page volume, the first in an impressive series comprising the full collection of Louis Daniel Brodsky s verse, is a tangible record of one man s travail and his ecstasy, his certitude and his confusion, and, finally, his journey into the heart of the person he would never stop becoming a poet. Louis Daniel Brodsky s verse captures the unloosing of an American poet s voice. . . .