He went on staring at the emptiness
including Denial and Festival
affection and irritation
including one short lyric where floodwater puddles seem to resemble war-torn continents
Faraj Bou al-Isha: Six poems
What Vanishes Evangeline Patterson He went on staring atWhat Vanishes contains four sections: poems of place and displacement set in such far flung locales as Budapest, Berkeley, Vancouver, Point Pleasant, and the skies above Australia along with Dublin, Ballybunion, Dingle, and Drumcliffe. Poems of love and loss, engagement, alienation, and endurance; poems focused on music and musicians, from blues to bluegrass to punk to jazz; and "found" poems from sources as varied as Diane Arbus, Teilhard de Chardin,