Count the Waves: Poems [Paperback]

Beasley uses humor and surpriselike a scythe, cutting to the root ofa matter.Washington Post Beasley tackles our moral progress, with its woundsof love, authoritatively and emphatically. Sandra Beasley is a master poet of facts, story, feeling, and the slipknot statement that binds them together. Inventive, ingeniously fitted, musical, precise, unfettered, her poems etch and mirror the clarities and strangeness of our human lives. This irresistibly visionary book resembles to no small degree a cabinet of wonders. To every phenomenon and circumstance of the heart, its poems open, saying, Her lightness works best when it dapples her darknessand when her darkness, as it often does, feels truly deep. US