A House For Last Year's Summer: Poems (harmony Poetry Series) [Paperback]

Terry Hermsens new book ranges from bicycles to baseball, children to elders, Ohio rivers to the Strait of Magellan, offering words like stepping stones that lead us into a world gone deep and strange, redolent with memory, association, and feeling. Hermsens mindful attentionintense yet delicateyields crafty, loamy poems in forms from sonnets to shaped poems to riddles. The surprisesof language, imagery, and insightare many, and the rewards are rich.

--Jeff Gundy, author of Abandoned Homeland