What the painters saw in our faces

2001

pp 109

ISBN: 978-0864187161

What the painter saw in our faces is a superb book. Each poem moves us forward into a space where our mortal lives can be viewed with compassion and depth. Vast and architectural, the poems depict the fragile boundaries and the potential for breakdown that exist within our lives. These poems, full of sad awakenings and deflected hopes, are uplifting for the sheer magnificence in all they register, for the way in which the imagination is both penetrating and prismatic … What the painters saw in our faces is a collection of unflagging, spellbinding, heartbreaking poems. -Judith Beveridge