Breaths' Burials

The poems in Gustaf Sobins newest collection, Breaths Burials, establish a dialogue with silence. Breath, its syllables buried in the resonant space between the word and the void, unlocks the gloriole, the ring of things released. Whether Sobin is writing about irises, Venetian architecture, or the wind-blown plateaus of his adopted Provence, his poems are not more nor less than a search in the redemptive, celebrating the regeneration of language out of itself. Breaths Burials once again confirms the praise of Robert Duncan, who described Sobins work as a poetry of great distinction, awakening the spirit to a world of errant clarifies renewed.