What More Could the Universe Want

The poems of Dennis Sampson's new collection look upwards where "Deep sky is, of all visual impressions, the nearest akin to a feeling." Coleridge, his notebooks, and where "I have lost my way in the sky---now, where?" Osip Mandelstam Now, where, indeed. Sampson's masterful lyricism and storytelling open the sweetness and longing of a challenging life come to fruition. Must-read poems for any lover off the art and any seeker of spiritual truth.