Title: The Steel Veil
First published: 2008
Description: Soulfully introspective and viscerally engaged, Jack Marshall’s poetry weds timely depictions of Middle Eastern widows “behind veils heavy / as the steel / veil of empire” with timeless expressions of personal grief and political outrage. Invoking visionary possibilities of being while “riding unsteadily on the rails / of rhyme,” Marshall’s distinctive voice and elegant lyrics unite this muscled, multilayered collection.
Subjects: Poetry, American poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
LC classification: PS3563.A722 S74 2008