Dark Elderberry Branch2012

2014 Eric Hoffer Award for Poetry – First Runner-Up 2014 Montaigne Medal Finalist 2014 da Vinci Eye Finalist

A reading by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine

“This ‘homage’ to Tsvetaeva captures moments, lines, and fragments the way a talented artist captures an individual with a few well-placed strokes of charcoal. As artists understand, a faithful rendering is not always the best way to capture an individual, a scene, or an idea. It is not completeness or precision that are most important, but instead, intuition, empathy, and artfulness. And in this sense Dark Elderberry Branch succeeds brilliantly.” ⎯Gwarlingo

“. . .a master class in poetics. . . [bringing] layer after layer of meaning, context, and skill to life. . . . Tsvetaeva would approve of this re-vision of...