Lampblack & Ash

[T]here is something utterly in thrall here, honey-slow and fixated. Driven by obsessionin particular, obsession with the legendary French poet, Robert DesnosMuenchs identification with a true self beyond the selfs known truth is startling.from the introduction by Carol Muske-Dukes Simones poems have a confidence and sophistication of what I like to call intentionality. Also wit, grace, poise, and a relationship to writing beyond self-referential feeling.Anne Waldman Lush, sprouting, sensuous images line-by-line, adopting myth freely, Muenchs poems are volatile explosives, circling beauty.James Tate Simone Muench is poetry editor of ACM and is an assistant professor at Lewis University, as well as a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Chicago.