Greg Glazner

In this poetry chapbook, Greg Glazner's brilliant attention to the momentary details, the grit particulars of rural life in one of Oklahoma's tornado zones, is striking on every page: "A white shock in the dark window -- a quick fray / in the nerves and the cowboy wallpaper / lights up all around you and goes dim." The storm comes and we are never ready for it; these awesome poems are about surviving the storm, and what comes after.

Greg Glazner's lyrical and meditative poems address the burdens, demands, and joys of life at the end of the twentieth century. Their subjects range from a self-portrait distorted by nightfall to a consideration of the place of consciousness in a universe created out of an explosion. These elegant, well-crafted poems depict the spiritual desolation of American life and act as beacons of hope in the quest for sincerity and depth.