Meridian It is a book that

It is a book that seeks to find and maintain a human voice in a world filled with distractions: Love and lightning

Small-McKinney showcases a true talent for imbuing the smallest details with authenticity and layered meanings

Dobreer wraps her lyric scarves around the reader's psyche where one is drawn into the dance

Comparisons open into comparisons like petals from otherworldly flowers

” The poems in Night Court are often starkly rendered

Meridian It is a book thatBeginning with an exhortation as finely calibrated as clockworkdear reader Im trapped beating on the other pages sideand proceeding in filigreed language that is at once sparse and lush, Raymond Gibsons Meridian reads like a French detective novel translated by Sappho into sparking, barking and completely original English. Brimming with invention and intelligence, this is poetry that cuts to the bone and reaches the ether. As a moth lays eggs on a